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BY 
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As those old Romans robbed all the cities of 

the world to set out Rome, we skim off the cream 

of other men's wits, and pick out the choice flowers 

of their gardens. 

Robert Burton, 

Died January 25, 1630, aged 64. 



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JANUARY i. 

Great God! we sing that mighty hand, 
By which supported still we stand; 
The opening year Thy mercy shows; 
Let mercy crown it till it close. 

Philip Doddridge, died 175 1, aged 49- 

Ring in the valiant man and free, 
The larger heart, the kindlier hand; 
Ring out the darkness of the land, 

Ring in the Christ that is to be. 

Alfred Tennyson, died 1892, aged 83. 



JANUARY 2. 

Truth is continually presenting new aspects, which 
call for new forms of statement. More and more Christ 
is recognized as supreme authority. The constructive 
principle of theology is no longer Sovereignty, but Love. 
Christ inspired the love-atmosphere, from which have come 
multiplied philanthropies. Hence the increasing applica- 
tion of Christian principle to all forms of life, in society, 
industry, and the State, in literature, art, and diversion. A 
new morality has come, the law of Love instead of the 
code of abstract right. 

William W. Adams. 



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JANUARY 3. 

Do you wish for kindness? be kind; 

Do you wish for truth? be true; 
What you give of yourself, you find; 

Your world is a reflex of you. 

He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits creden- 
tials of impotence. 

Lavater, died 1801, aged 60. 



JANUARY 4. 

God, overflowing with goodness, desiring to have 
angels and men to whom He could do good, made men in 
his own image to be rulers of the earth. The image of God 
consisted in power of thought and freedom of will. Man 
decides on his own actions. God assists by his grace those 
who will avail themselves of it. With all this, it remains 
true that virtue comes from God. He implanted it in na- 
ture; by his support alone it is maintained. Nature, ra- 
tional and free, is a gift of grace. To be natural is to be 
virtuous; conversion is a return from the unnatural. 

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JANUARY 5. 

Let me ask, ere in the night's repose I rest, 
What good or ill has this day's life expressed? 
Where have I been? In what have I transgressed? 
Where have I failed in what I ought to do? 
In what to God, to man, or to myself I owe? 
If evil I have done, let me in sorrow mourn, 
And let my soul with strong remorse be torn; 
If good, the good with peace of mind repay, 
And to my secret self with pleasure say, 
Rejoice, my heart, for all went well to-day. 

Pythagoras, died aged 74, B. C. 504. 



JANUARY 6. 

I have enjoyed the refinement of the best society, but I 
have never sat in the palaces of England without being 
pained by the inequality of which the inordinate luxury 
was the token. 

I was anxious that our country should take the lead in 
the disarmament of the nations. 

Charles Sumner, born Jan. 6, 181 1. 



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JANUARY 7. 

The indignation towards the mention of Jesus which 
filled Jewish hearts during centuries of persecution, is being 
replaced in the modern Jewish mind by a keen appreciation 
of the beauty and the nobleness of character of Jesus. His 
wisdom, gentleness, unselfishness, and his love for human- 
ity, are becoming better understood, so that the modern 
Jew looks upon Jesus as one of the greatest gifts that Is- 
rael has given to the world. 

Harris Weinstock. 



I would not have any one preacher give me a distaste 
for all others, but should choose one who will give me such 
relish and respect for the word of God, as may dispose me 
to hear it wherever preached. 

Fenelon, died Jan. 7, 171 5, aged 64. 



JANUARY 8. 

Acts of worship should generally be addressed directly 
to God or consist of rehearsals of truths and events, or ex- 
hortations and appeals to the heart, which are adapted to 
turn the heart to God. 

Chanting is a form of church music so scriptural, sim- 
ple, venerable, and appropriate to public worship, that it 
must gain favor with those who love to make melody in 
their hearts to the Lord. 

Lowell Mason, born Jan. 8, 1792. 



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JANUARY 9. 

There is a young lady in New Haven (Sarah Pierre- 
pont, born January 9, 1710), who is beloved of that great 
Being who made the world, and there are seasons in 
which this Being in some way invisible comes to her, and 
fills her mind with exceeding delight. She has a strange 
sweetness in her mind, and singular purity in her affections, 
and you could not persuade her to do anything wrong if 
you would give her all the world. She is of wonderful 
calmness and universal benevolence of mind, especially 
after this great God has manifested himself to her. She 
will sometimes go about from place to place singing 
sweetly, and seems always full of joy and pleasure. She 
loves to be alone walking in the fields and groves, and 
seems to have some One invisible always conversing with 
her. Jonathan Edwards, born Oct. 5, 1703. 



JANUARY 10. 

As I was walking in my father's pasture, and looking 
upon the sky and clouds, there came into my mind so 
sweet a sense of the glorious majesty and grace of God 
as I know not how to express. I seemed to see them both 
in a sweet conjunction; majesty and meekness joined to- 
gether; a sweet and gentle and holy majesty and a majestic 
meekness; an awful sweetness, a high and great and holy 
gentleness. I thought with myself, how happy I should be 
if I might enjoy that God, and be rapt up in him forever. 

Jonathan Edwards, circa 1720. 



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JANUARY ii. 

Alexander Hamilton (born Jan. n, 1757) smote the 
rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of 
revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of pub- 
lic credit, and it sprang upon its feet. 

Daniel Webster, born Jan. 18, 1782. 



In Hamilton's death (July 12, 1804) the country expe- 
rienced a loss second only to that of Washington. He pos- 
sessed the same rare and lofty qualities, the same balance of 
soul, with less of Washington's severe simplicity, and awe- 
inspiring presence, but more of warmth, ornament and 
grace. Richard Hildreth, born June 28, 1807. 



The bravest are the tenderest, 
The loving are the daring. 

Bayard Taylor, born Jan. 11, 1825. 

JANUARY 12. 

On January 12, 1723, I made a dedication of myself to 
God, and wrote it down; giving up myself and all I had to 
God; to be for the future in no respect my own. I solemnly 
vowed to take God for my whole portion and felicity, and 
his law for the constant rule of my obedience, engaging to 
fight with all my might against the world, the flesh, and the 
devil, to the end of my life. I frequently used to retire on 
the banks of Hudson river, at some distance from the city 
(New York), for contemplation on divine things and secret 
converse with God, and had many sweet hours there. 

Jonathan Edwards. 



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JANUARY 13. 

I pray you all to live together 
Like brethren; yet what hatred Christian men 
Bear to each other! But do you good to all 
As much as in you lieth. Hurt no man more 
Than you would harm your loving natural brother 
Of the same roof, same breast. If any do, 
Albeit he think himself at home with God, 
Of this be sure, he is whole worlds away. 

Tennyson, born Jan. 12, 1809. 



JANUARY 14. 

(To those that own exceeding wealth) 

Remember that sore saying spoken once 

By him that was the Truth, 'How hard it is 

For the rich man to enter into heaven ;' 

Let all rich men remember that hard word; 

Let them flow forth in charity. Give to the poor, 

Ye give to God. He is with us in the poor. 



I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, 
And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of 
the suns. Tennyson, 



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JANUARY 15. 

Strong Son of God, immortal Love, 

Whom we, that have not seen thy face, 
By faith, and faith alone, embrace, 

Believing where we cannot prove; 

Thou seemest human and divine, 

The highest, holiest manhood, thou : 
Our wills are ours, we know not how: 

Our wills are ours, to make them thine. 

Tennyson. 



JANUARY 16. 

Of all God's works, which do this world adorn, 
There is no one more fair and excellent 

Than is man's body, both for power and form, 
While it is kept in sober government; 

But none that is more foul and indecent, 

Distempered through misrule and passions base. 



Every spirit, as it is most pure 
And hath in it the more of heavenly light, 

So it the fairer body doth procure 
To habit in, and it more fairly dight 
With cheerful grace and amiable sight. 
For of the soul the body form doth take; 
For soul is form, and doth the body make. 

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JANUARY 17. 

From the poverty and obscurity in which I was born, 
and in which I passed my earliest years, I have raised 
myself to a state of affluence and some degree of celebrity 
in the world. And I desire with humility to acknowledge 
that I attribute the happiness of my life to divine Provi- 
dence, which led to the means I used, and gave the success. 

There never has been nor ever will be a good war or 
a bad peace. 

Benjamin Franklin, born Jan. 15, 1706. 



JANUARY 18. 

I am not in haste to see Sheffields and Birminghams in 
America, or to accelerate the period when the mass of 
American labor shall not find its employment in the field; 
when men shall shut their eyes upon Nature, the heavens 
and the earth, and immerse themselves in close and un- 
wholesome workshops; when they shall shut their ears to 
the bleatings of their flocks upon their own hills, and to 
the voice of the lark that cheers them at the plough, that 
they may open them in dust and smoke and steam to the 
whirl of spools and spindles and the grating of rasps and 
saws. Daniel Webster, born Jan. 18, 1782. 



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JANUARY 19. 

It is characteristic of the pleasures of our animal na- 
ture, that the agreeable feeling of them pertains to the in- 
dividual. It passes with the moment; a thousand such ex- 
periences make no one richer. 

But in the moral life we rise out of self-indulgence into 
a common sphere with other spiritual beings, into the life 
of truth and goodness, into sympathy with the Eternal. 
We put away selfishness, and our life becomes one and 
the same with the life divine, — likeness to God no more 
a far off hope, but a present experience. Struggle may 
continue in the outward life, but in the mind the strife is 
over, the victory won; hope passes into fruition, struggle 
into conquest, effort and endeavor into the peace that 
passeth understanding. John Caird. 



JANUARY 20. 

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; 
friend to one; enemy to none. 

God has often called men to places of dignity and 
honor when they have been busy in their vocation: Moses 
from keeping Jethro's sheep; David keeping his father's 
sheep; the four Apostles from their fishery; Matthew from 
the receipt of custom. He never encourages idleness, and 
despises not persons in mean employments. 

Benjamin Franklin. 



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JANUARY 21. 

The English race has inherited the pride, as it has 
inherited the grandeur of the Roman people — not the vile 
Romans enslaved by Augustus, but the sterling Romans 
of the Republic. And that race, like the Romans to their 
tributaries, has been fierce and rapacious in Ireland. De- 
spite a thousand blots, however, the English race is of all 
modern races and of all Christian countries the one which 
has best preserved the three fundamental bases of every 
society worthy of man — the spirit of liberty, the spirit of 
family, and the spirit of religion. 

Montalembert, 1777-1831. 



JANUARY 22. 

Two went to pray! Oh, rather say, 
One went to brag, the other to pray; 
One stands up close and treads on high, 
Where the other dares not lend his eye; 
One nearer to God's altar trod, 
The other nearer to the altar's God. 

Richard Crashaw, 1600- 1650. 



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JANUARY 23. 

"I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of 
heaven and earth. " This declaration expresses a sense of 
communion and fellowship between the human creature 
and the divine Creator, oneness of the human and the di- 
vine nature, God our Father, ourselves His children. 

Jesus Christ showed me that this world was inexpli- 
cable without God, and explicable with Him. In his in- 
fluence upon our race, Jesus has left behind Judea, and be- 
come the possession of the world. 

Phillips Brooks, died Jan. 23, 1893, aged 57. 

JANUARY 24. 

It would be thought a hard Government that should 
tax its people one-tenth of their time to be employed in 
its service. But Idleness taxes much more, if we reckon 
all that is spent in doing nothing with that spent in em- 
ployments or amusements that amount to nothing. Lazi- 
ness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him. 
Drive thy business; let not that drive thee. There are no 
gains without pains. 

As the borrower is slave to the lender, and the debtor 
to the creditor, disdain the chain, maintain independence; 
be industrious, frugal, and free. For age and want save 
while you may. This is reason and wisdom. But do not 
depend too much on your industry and frugality. Ask the 
blessing of Heaven, and be not uncharitable to those that 
want it, but comfort and help them. 

B. Franklin (Poor Richard, 1758). 



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JANUARY 25. 

To make a happy fireside clime for weans and wife, — 
That's the true pathos and sublime of human life. 

But deep this truth impressed my mind, — 

Through all His works abroad, 
The heart benevolent and kind 

The most resembles God. 

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root. 

Robert Burns, born Jan. 25, 1759. 



JANUARY 26. 

Our history proves that with wisdom and knowledge 
men may govern themselves, and the duty incumbent on 
us is, to preserve the cheering example, and take care 
that nothing may weaken its authority in the world. If, in 
our case, the Representative system fails, popular govern- 
ments must be pronounced impossible. No combination 
of circumstances more favorable to the experiment can 
ever be expected to occur. The last hopes of mankind, 
therefore, rest with us, and should it be proclaimed that 
our experiment had become an argument against the ex- 
periment, the knell of popular liberty would be sounded 
throughout the earth. Daniel Webster. 



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JANUARY 27. 

If heaven could be obtained without the necessity of a 
good life, there would be no infidels. We look upon reason 
as the native lamp of the soul, kindled by the Creator to 
conduct us in our actions. Far from declining the trial of 
reason, Religion appeals to it, is supported by it, and 
cannot continue pure without it. 

Richard Bentley, born Jan. 27, 1662. 



JANUARY 28. 

In 1739, the Rev. George Whitefield arrived in Phila- 
delphia. The multitudes that attended his sermons were 
enormous. I happened to attend one. I perceived he in- 
tended to finish with a collection (for an Orphan Home in 
Georgia), and I silently resolved he should get nothing 
from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, 
three or four silver dollars; and five pistoles in gold. As 
he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give 
the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me 
ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and 
he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly 
into the collector's dish, gold and all. B. Franklin. 



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JANUARY 29. 

From all that dwell below the skies 
Let the Creator's praise arise; 
Let the Redeemer's name be sung 
Through every land, by every tongue. 

Isaac Watts, 



JANUARY 30. 

The Church is good only as it is Christian. We hope 
there will always be enough of Christ's spirit in the society 
which bears his name to bring about such reforms as may 
be necessary to make it serve the end for which it was 
instituted. Should this hope be disappointed, the visible 
church, as we know it, will pass away, leaving the spirit of 
Christ room to make a new experiment under happier 
auspices of self-realization. 

Alexander B. Bruce, born Jan. 30, 183 1. 



JANUARY 31. 

A man's task in his life-preserver. Economy is a: 
high, humane office, a sacrament, when it is the prudence 
of simple tastes, when it is practiced for freedom, or love,. 
or devotion. Labor is God's education. A man should 
have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. Not 
only health, but education is in the work. 

R. W . Emerson. 



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FEBRUARY i. 

If we maintain our political union, exceeding all 
praise, as it exceeds all former political associations, we 
may be sure of one thing, that, while our country furnishes 
materials for a thousand masters of the historic art, it will 
afford no topic for a Gibbon. It will have no Decline and 
Fall. Daniel Webster. 



FEBRUARY 2. 

I profess to feel a strong attachment to the Constitu- 
tion and institutions of the United tSates, to the honor and 
glory of the Government. I feel every injury inflicted upon 
this country almost as a personal injury. I blush for every 
fault which I see committed in its public councils, as if they 
were faults or mistakes of my own. We cannot withdraw 
from the commendations or the reproaches of the civilized 
world. They see us as that Star of empire which was pre- 
dicted, making its way westward. I wish they may see it 
as a mild, placid, though brilliant orb, making its way 
athwart the heavens to the enlightening and cheering of 
mankind, not a meteor of fire and blood terrifying the na- 
tions. Daniel Webster. 



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FEBRUARY 3. 

Long as thy God is God above, 

Thy brother every man below, 
So long, dear Land of all my love, 

Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow. 

Sidney Lanier, born Feb. 3, 1842. 

The law of our nature is that we love in reply to love. 
"God is Love. ,, It is the one struggle to believe this. In 
spite of the clouded mystery in which God has shrouded 
Himself, in spite of the seeming cruelties of this life, and 
the gathering of thick darkness and more solemn silence 
round the soul as life goes on, to believe this, and hold 
it fast, as a man holds on to a rock with a desperate grip 
when the salt surf and the driving waves sweep over him, — 
this is the fight of the Christian life, compared with which 
all else is easy. 

Frederick W . Robertson, born Feb. 3, 1816. 



FEBRUARY 4. 

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse. 
The only salvation for man is in the union of the two. 

If a man would strengthen his intellectual faculties, he 
must exercise them; if he would improve his taste, he 
must employ it on objects of taste; if he would improve 
his moral nature, he must perform acts of goodness. 

Mark Hopkins, born Feb. 4, 1802. 



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FEBRUARY 5. 

Where God is, there is his foster-child, Patience. She 
fortifieth faith, guideth peace, assisteth charity, instructeth 
humility, rules the flesh, bridles the tongue, restrains the 
hand, treads temptation under foot, orders the rich, con- 
soles the poor, strains not the weak, wastes not the strong, 
commends the servant to his master, his master to God, 
adorns the woman, approves the man, is loved in the boy, 
praised in the young man, respected in the old, is beauti- 
ful in every sex, in every age. 

Tertullian, died A. D. 230, aged 70. 



FEBRUARY 6. 

President Lincoln's declaration, "I have a vow reg- 
istered in heaven that I will preserve ,protect, and defend 
the Constitution of the United States," carried him and 
the people through the struggles, the dangers, the vicissi- 
tudes of the rebellion. That vow, this oath, this duty of 
the President, the people do not regard as personal to 
him, but an oath and duty assumed and to be performed 
as their representative. 

William M. Evarts, born Feb. 6, 1818. 



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FEBRUARY 7. 

It was in the reign of George III that England lo-t 
North America by persisting in taxing her without her 
own consent. That immense country, made independent 
under Washington, and left to itself, became the United 
States — one of the greatest nations of the earth. 

Charles Dickens, born Feb. 7, 1812. 



FEBRUARY 8. 

The love of nature is a characteristic of the Christian 
heart. 

Great becomes the likelihood of error in the descrip- 
tion of things seen from a distance, of which many of the 
distinctive features have been worn away by time. Few 
people have any idea of the cost of truth in these things, 
of the way in which separate observations falsify each 
other, incapable of reconcilement, owing to some inadver- 
tence. So far as my time, and strength and mind served 
me, I have endeavored, down to the smallest matters, to 
ascertain and speak the truth. 

John Ruskin, born Feb. 8, 1819. 



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FEBRUARY 9. 

The axe which struck the head of Mary Stuart from 
her body (Feb. 8, 1587) dealt the most crushing blow to 
the theory of the divine right of kings. An anointed queen, 
widow of an anointed king, was tried like an ordinary 
criminal. She plead exemption from the law because of 
royal blood, but she was convicted and put to death; 
whether rightfully or wrongfully may be disputed; but the 
principle was established that kings are not above law. 

Douglas Campbell. 



FEBRUARY 10. 

As it is my belief that the Words of Christ, and his 
Words alone, the primal indefeasible truths of Christianity, 
shall not pass away, so I cannot presume to say that men 
may not attain to a clearer sense of those Words than 
has yet been reached. Christianity may approximate more 
closely to Christ, may establish the union of religion and 
reason, keep in tune the harmony of holiness and charity, 
assert freedom, and exercise a wider influence through its 
principles in the civilization of mankind. 

Henry Hart Milman, born Feb. 10, 1791. 



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FEBRUARY n. 

The world is so full of sadness that I make it a point 
to avoid all sadness that does not come in the way of duty. 
I have prisms in my windows to fill the room with rain- 
bows. I cultivate gay flowers. I seek cheerfulness in every 
possible way. 

Lydia Maria Child, born Feb. n, 1802. 



FEBRUARY 12. 

The Churches of New England are very like unto 
those that were in the first ages of Christianity. The first 
age was the golden age; to return unto that, will make a 
man a Protestant, and, I may add, a Puritan. 

Cotton Mather, born Feb. 11, 1663. 

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with 
firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, 
let us strive on to finish the work we are in. 

Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809. 



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FEBRUARY 13. 

My faith in human nature, my belief in the progress of 
man to a better social condition, and my trust in the ability 
of men to establish and maintain self-government, are as 
fresh and as strong as when I began to travel the path of 
life. Peter Cooper, born Feb. 12, 1809. 

I believe I have acted rightly in devoting my life to 
science; I feel no remorse for having committed any great 
sin; but have often regretted that I have not done more 
direct good to my fellow creatures. 

Charles Darwin, born Feb. 12, 1809. 



FEBRUARY 14. 

Truth, justice, oath, duty, control the life, liberty, char- 
acter, and property of every citizen. They are little words, 
but they have great power. The furies of Greek mythology 
had charge of the sanctions of an oath. The imaginations 
of the prophets sanction the solemnity of an oath, and 
people the place of punishment with oath-breakers. The 
tortures and torments of history are applied to public ser- 
vants, who, in betrayal of sworn trusts, disobey those obli- 
gations without which society falls to pieces. 

W . M. Evarts. 



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FEBRUARY 15. 

I write the wonders of the Christian Religion, flying 
from the depravations of Europe, and report the wonderful 
displays of power, wisdom, and goodness, wherewith Prov- 
idence hath irradiated an Indian Wilderness. 'Tis possible 
that our Lord Jesus Christ carried some thousands of Re- 
formers into the retirements of an American desert, on 
purpose that he might there, to them first, and then by 
them, give a specimen of many good things which he 
would have his churches elsewhere aspire and arise unto. 

Cotton Mather, died Feb. 13, 1728. aged 65. 



FEBRUARY 16. 

I have left unmentioned some censurable occurrences 
in our Colonies, as things no less unuseful than improper 
to be raised out of the grave. 

The greatest honor and the sweetest pleasure, out of 
heaven, is to serve our illustrious Lord Jesus Christ. 

Unto Thee, O Son of God, and Lord of all things, I 
humbly offer up a poor history of churches, which own 
Thee alone for their Prince and Head and Lawgiver. I 
pray Thee to make it acceptable and profitable unto thy 
churches, and serve thy truths and ways among thy people, 
by that which Thou hast here prepared. 

Cotton Mather. 



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FEBRUARY 17. 

It is the condition of free constitutions that the people 
be trained to self-government. Moral control in place of 
public control is the distinction of a Republic, grounded in 
a more complete government in the habits of the people 
themselves. Under this condition laws are fewer, punish- 
ments are mitigated, the police are at their own private 
employments, and come only when sent for, fortresses no 
where appear to annoy the sense of liberty. We have gone 
a length in this direction which to a European will appear 
incredible. While I ponder this sublime distinction of our 
country not without fear, I am swallowed up into admira- 
tion of that power by which our fathers set our history on a 
footing so peculiar. 

Horace BushnelL died Feb. 17, 1876, aged 74. 



FEBRUARY 18. 

I owe all to labor, nothing to genius. As long as a 
man walks in another's footsteps, he remains behind him. 

Michel Angelo. 
Died Feb. 17, 1563, on the threshold of his 90th year. 

Gentlemen choose not their task; 
They choose to do it well. 

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FEBRUARY 19. 

The Reformation from popery, which Wycliffe at- 
tempted in the fourteenth century, and for which Huss and 
Jerome of Prague were martyrs in the fifteenth, was suc- 
cessfully begun by Luther twenty-five years after the dis- 
covery of America. All Europe was convulsed with a great 
intellectual and moral emancipation. The cause of the 
Reformation was essentially the cause of freedom, of manly 
thought, of inquiry, of popular improvement, of universal 
education. When religion, instead of being an affair be- 
tween man and his priest, becomes an affair between man 
and his God, the dignity of man as man at once outshines 
the dignity of pontiffs and of kings. 

Leonard Bacon, born Feb. 19, 1802. 



FEBRUARY 20. 

The only constant form of Pure Religion is in useful 
work, in faithful love, in stintless charity. 

John Ruskin. 



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FEBRUARY 21. 

No man or set of men are entitled to prescribe as a 
term of communion what the New Testament has not en- 
joined as a condition of salvation. 

Robert Hall, died Feb. 21, 1831, aged 67. 



FEBRUARY 22. 

The chill season now again brings in its annual round the 

morn, 
When greatest of the sons of men our Washington was 
born. W . C. Bryant. 

I make it my earnest prayer that God would most 
graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love 
mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humil- 
ity, and pacific temper of mind, which were the charac- 
teristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, with- 
out an imitation of whose example in these things, we can- 
not hope to be a happy nation. 

Of all the dispositions and habits Which lead to po- 
litical prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable 
supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of 
patriotism, who should labor to subvert these pillars of hu- 
man happiness. The mere politician, equally with the 
pious man, ought to respect and cherish them. 

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FEBRUARY 23 

Washington, not father of his country only, but 
world-father also, inserting his grand fatherhood into 
kings, emperors, peoples, laws, accepted more and more 
reverently by the compulsion of good in his life, and 
reigning as a kind of civil-state Messiah that has come to 
propagate his sway in laws and liberties. 

Horace Bushnell. 



FEBRUARY 24. 

Jesus and the Apostles treated Christianity as the 
completion and supplement of natural religion and of 
previous revelations. As they appeal to the God of nature, 
we must follow them in this appeal. Christianity recog- 
nizes and depends on the religion of nature; how can it 
prove its claims except by an appeal to what men have 
already? 

John Henry Nezvman, born Feb. 21, 1801. 



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FEBRUARY 25. 

The earth is a star's satellite. We are citizens of the 
sky. Whether we know it or not, we are living in the 
stars. Camille Flammarion, born Feb. 25, 1842. 

Let us believe with all our hearts that Time, however 
inscrutably, is hewing out for our country the most colossal 
and resplendent result in history. 

George William Curtis, born Feb. 25, 182 1. 



FEBRUARY 26. 

Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of 
the times; measures of retaliation are not. 

William McKinley, born Feb. 26, 1844. 

The material nature of man is wearied out at night, 
and seeks lassitude and repose. The eyes of flesh close. 
Other eyes open. The unknown reveals itself. Shadowy 
pictures of the invisible world come. A phantom creation 
walks by our side, invisible in the daylight world. 

Victor Hugo, born Feb. 26, 1802. 



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FEBRUARY 27. 

Life is real! Life is earnest! 

And the grave is not its goal; 
Dust thou art, to dust return est, 

Was not spoken of the soul. 

Be mine a life of action. I will work in my own sphere, 
nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and 
happiness. 

Henry W . Longfellow, born Feb. 2j y 1807. 



FEBRUARY 28. 

Nobody possessing a scientific culture of mind can ac- 
cept the decrees of the Vatican Council, having gone 
over the whole ground of ecclesiastical history, the result 
is that the proofs of the falsehood of the Vatican decrees 
amount to a demonstration. When I am told that I must 
swear to the truth of those dogmas, my feeling is as if I 
were asked to swear that two and two make five and not 
four. Ignatius von Dollinger, born Feb. 28, 1799. 

I would rather the members of the church should be 
at variance than that they should agree in that which is 
evil. Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614. 



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MARCH i. 

March that blusters, and March that blows, 
What color under your footsteps glows ! 
Beauty you summon from winter snows, 
You are the pathway that leads to the rose. 

Celia Thaxter. 



MARCH 2. 

In 1725, I resolved to dedicate my life to God; all 
my thoughts, words and actions, being thoroughly con- 
vinced there was no medium, but that every part of my life 
must be either a sacrifice to God, or to myself, that is, in 
effect, to the devil. 

In 1726, the religion of the heart appeared to me in 
a stronger light than before. I saw that simplicity of 
intention, purity of affection, one design in all we say or 
do, and one desire, ruling our tempers, are the wings of 
the soul, without which we can never ascend to the mount 
of God. 

In 1729, I saw in a clearer light the necessity of hav- 
ing the mind which was in Christ, and of walking as he 
walked, not only in most respects, but in all things. 

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MARCH 3. 

One day an emigrant stopped at my store, and asked 
me to buy a barrel of odds and ends, of little value, for 
which he had no room in his wagon. I bought it, and 
put it away, and never thought of it until, rearranging 
things, the stuff turned up. I found in it a two-volume 
copy of Blackstone's Commentaries. I devoured them. 
I never read anything which so interested and thrilled me. 
Soon after I began the study of law, and that is how I 
came to be a lawyer. A. Lincoln. 



MARCH 4. 

I wish a course of lectures to be given on Natural' 
Religion, showing its conformity to that of our Saviour, 
disputed points of faith and ceremony to be avoided, the 
attention of the lecturers to be directed to the moral doc- 
trines of the Gospel. John Lowell, Jr. 

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MARCH 5. 

Let the Sabbath be honored for the sake of the spirit- 
ual nature. The religious life may derive warmth from the 
few moments of daily devotion, from holy thoughts in the 
midst of toil and care. But I have yet to learn that daily 
devotion can be well sustained without the Sabbath. 
"Make all days alike/' is a maxim frequently urged. I 
would echo it. But level up, not down. Let Sabbath 
thoughts and feelings flow into the week-days, and render 
the whole life purer, nobler, more faithful, more heavenly. 

A. P. Peabody. 



MARCH 6. 



Some deny the Infinite, as some deny the sun. They 
are the blind. Victor Hugo. 



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MARCH 7. 

American slavery died a death of violence, to our 
shame be it said; for the Nation had not virtue, temper- 
ance, and wisdom enough to abolish it peacefully and 
harmlessly Francis Parkman. 

Ignorance and Evil, even in full flight, deal terrible 
back-handed blows. 

Arthur Helps, died March 7, 1857, aged 58. 



MARCH 8. 

A knowledge of the human mind is of all studies the 
highest. Says an ancient philosopher, "On earth there is 
nothing great but man; in man, there is nothing great 
but his mind." 

William Hamilton, born March 8, 1788. 

Religion should be like rain, which descends in a 
million little drops, and is not ashamed to sink into the 
ground, where the roots are. The way the drop of water 
comes to swing in the leaf, as it flaunts in the sun and 
wind all summer long, is by going down into the ground. 

Henry Ward Beecher. 
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MARCH 9. 

Life! We have been long together, 
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 
Tis hard to part when friends are dear; 
Perhaps will cost a sigh, a tear; 
Then steal away, give little warning; 

Choose thine own time; 

Say not "Good Night," 

But in some brighter clime 

Bid me "Good Morning." 

Anna B. Barbauld. 
Died March 9, 1825, aged 82. 



MARCH 10. 

In some vagary, never fully explained, Mr. Cleveland 
startled a peaceful world one day by proposing a war be- 
tween the United States and England. The fair prospects 
of the year were blighted in a moment. Inconsiderate 
words broke up industrial plans which ranged forward for 
years. At the Mohonk Conference (1901) there was an 
evident feeling that we are no longer in the wilderness. We 
are in the Promised land, and it is time to take the prom- 
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MARCH ii. 

Reason is the voice of God. To go against reason 
is to go against God. A man has as much right to use 
bis understanding in judging of truth, as he has to use 
his eyes to see his way. 

Benjamin Whichcote, born March n, 1610. 

One of the first elements of freedom is to be out of 
debt, "the glorious privilege of being independent." I 
never had a bill presented to me twice, nor a note dis- 
counted. Francis Wayland, born March 11, 1796. 



MARCH 12. 

The highest view of Christianity regards it as the re- 
ligion of nature, the law of the spiritual universe, corres- 
ponding to the laws embodied in the material universe. 
Revelation did not create it, any more than Newton cre- 
ated the law of gravitation, or Kepler the laws of plane- 
tary motion. What they were to the material universe, in- 
spired men and the God-born Saviour were to the spirit- 
ual universe. 

A. P. Peabody, died March 10, 1893, aged 82. 

The creation is the ceaseless converse of the Crea- 
tor with the creature. 

George Berkeley, born March 12, 1684. 



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MARCH 13. 

Unless the people be intelligent and virtuous, our gov- 
ernment is a farce. What folly, if, having committed 
sovereignty to the whole people, we take no pains to pre- 
pare them to discharge their duty, but surrender them to 
ignorance and passion! The facts of our condition render 
a vigorous and sustained effort for the diffusion of high 
intelligence necessary. The education of princes in other 
countries should be the education of the people in this. 

Francis Wayland. 



MARCH 14. 

The power granted Congress to coin money is an 
authority to stamp metallic money, not for emitting paper 
promises to pay money. The probition upon the States 
against making anything but gold and silver a legal tender, 
is founded in virtue and honesty, and is as binding upon 
the federal government as upon the state governments. 
People were sick of paper money about the time that the 
Constitution was formed. 

Thomas H. Benton, born March 14, 1782. 



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MARCH is. 

Industry is the natural way to wealth. Money is use- 
ful as it promoteth industry, but circulating without labor 
or industry is gaming. No man of sense and honesty but 
must see that it is folly for people to sit down to a gaming 
table and play off money one to another. The more 
methods there are for acquiring riches without industry or 
merit, the less there will be of either. 

George Berkeley. 



MARCH 16. 

The advice nearest to my heart and dearest to my 
convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and 
perpetuated. I have seen imported Africans just after their 
arrivals; their transformation from an almost brutal con- 
dition has been so great during my period of observation, 
that I could not set a limit to their further improvement. 

James Madison. 
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MARCH 17. 

All things of heavenly origin, like the sun, move 
westward. Rejoice, O venerable Rome! Though darkness 
overshadow thy seats, and thy mitred head descend to dust, 
thy spirit spreads toward a new world. 

Westward the star of empire takes its way: 

The four first acts already past, 
A fifth shall close the drama with the day : 
Time's noblest offspring is the last. 

George Berkeley. 
So clear a vision of what America would become, and 
the imagery and beauty with which the thought is ex- 
pressed, render it one of the most striking passages in our 
language. Daniel Webster, July 4, 185 1. 



MARCH 18. 

Let us advance the arts and works of peace, develop 
the resources of our land, build up its institutions, and see 
whether we may not perform something worthy to be re- 
membered. Let us cultivate union and harmony. Let our 
object be our whole country, and by the blessing of God 
may that country become a vast and splendid monument, 
not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, of 
Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration 
for ever. Daniel Webster. 



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MARCH 19. 

The religion of the Gospel is in all its parts natural re- 
ligion, co-eternal with the mind of God, coeval with the 
souls of men, — its doctrines and principles not true and 
right because revealed, but revealed because essentially 
true and immutably right. 

A. P. Peabody, born March 19, 181 1. 

Asked on the shores of Lake Bangweolo, Africa, "Why 
I had come so far?" I replied, We are all children of one 
Father, and I am anxious that we should know each other 
better. David Livingstone, born March 19, 181 3. 



MARCH 20 

It is for us, the children of a pure civilization, the 
pioneers of a Christian future, to found a Capitol, whose 
corner-stone shall be justice, whose top-stone liberty, with- 
in whose Holy of Holies shall dwell One who is no respect- 
er of persons. Crowding to the shelter of its stately arch- 
es, I see old and young, rich and poor, native and for- 
eign, Pagan, Jew, Christian, black and white, in one glad 
harmonious procession. 

Wendell Phillips, died Feb. 2, 1874, aged 73. 



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MARCH 21. 

History for these thousand years has not been the 
history of kindness, but of selfishness. An acceptance of 
the sentiment of Love would bring the felon and the out- 
cast to our side in tears. Let our affection flow out to our 
fellows; it would operate the greatest of revolutions. Let 
the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the 
concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. 
Let us begin by imparting. The equitable rule is that no 
one should take more than his share. Let man be a lover. 
Love would put a new face on this old world in which we 
dwell as pagans and enemies. It would warm the heart 
to see the diplomacy of statesmen, the impotence of armies 
and navies, superseded by this unarmed child. Love would 
accomplish that which force could never achieve. 

R. W. Emerson. 



MARCH 22. 

Things change for the worse spontaneously, if not al- 
tered for the better designedly. Francis Bacon. 



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MARCH 23. 

I often write chapters over and over again, beside 
innumerable corrections and interlinear additions. My aim 
has been to express clearly my meaning; this has been 
the motive-principle of all my corrections and re-writings. 
As to patterns for imitation, the only master of style I have 
had was Cicero. I owe a great deal to him, and as far as 
I know to no one else. His mastery of Latin is shown 
in his clearness. John H. Newman. 



MARCH 24. 

A comprehensive, world-embracing, truly Catholic 
Christianity, which knows what is essential to religion, and 
what is temporary and extraneous, may defy the world. 
Obstinate adherence to things irreconcilable with advan- 
cing knowledge, may repel how many T know not, how far 
I know still less. H. H. Milman. 



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MARCH 25. 

"What shall we do?" Just as Jesus and John the 
Baptist told us. Give up everything we do not need, and 
adjust our lives to take as little as possible of labor and 
strength from others. We still consider men our menials, 
in spite of the fact that conscience tells us that all are 
equal. We obey unjust laws, we go to war and murder, we 
smother conscience by narcotics and luxuries, by music, 
art, theaters, smoke, alcohol. Nothing can save us from 
this inconsistency but the law of Jesus. Tolstoy. 



MARCH 26. 

This Christendom of ours still keeps alive at least the 
name of a lover of mankind. But one day all men will be 
lovers, and every calamity be dissolved in the universal 
sunshine. R. W. Emerson. 



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MARCH 27. 

War with respect to its objects reverses all the rules of 
morality. It is a repeal of the principle of virtue; almost 
all the virtues are excluded; nearly all the vices are incor- 
porated. The sword cuts asunder the bond of consanguin- 
ity which unites man to man. It is next to impossible to 
set limits to military license. When men pass from the 
dominion of reason to that of force, whatever restraints are 
laid upon the passions will be feeble. Though we applaud 
attempts to blend humanity with military operations, it is 
to be feared they will never coalesce. Robert Hall. 



MARCH 28. 

The kingdom of Christ is in the fullest sense free. It 
has no sacred days or seasons, no special sanctuaries, be- 
cause every time and place alike are holy. Above all, it 
has no sacerdotal system. /. B. Lightfoot. 



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MARCH 29. 

I believe Christianity to be divine, because I am con- 
scious of its adaptation to my nature, of its having made 
me what I am morally and spiritually, and because in the 
history of the world it is the only cause of what has been 
best and noblest in humanity since the advent of Christ. 

A. P. Peabody. 



MARCH 30. 

Christian Faith is a grand cathedral with pictured 
windows; without, you see no glory; within, every ray of 
light reveals a harmony of splendors. 

Nathaniel Hawthorne. 



MARCH 31. 

What is the Church? All Christian people who believe 
in the Lord Jesus and try to please Him. 

Who ought to be in the Church? All men. The 
Church is mankind knowing and fulfilling its destiny. 

Creighton, Bp. of London, 1900. 



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APRIL i. 

Live while you live, the epicure would say, 
And seize the pleasures of the present day; 
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, 
And give to God each moment as it flies. , 
Lord, in my view let both united be, 
I live in pleasure while I live to Thee. 

Philip Doddridge. 



APRIL 2, 

The establishment of Christianity, the reverence of 
nations, has thrown around the Cross an indubitable sanc- 
tity. No effort can dissipate the dignity which has gath- 
ered round it, dissevered from its coarse and humiliating 
associations. To us it is the symbol of an ancient and ven- 
erable religion. To the Jew and to the heathen it was the 
instrument of public execution Yet to the cross of Christ 
men turned. In an incredibly short space of time mul- 
titudes gave up the splendor, pride and power of paganism, 
to adore a being who was thus humiliated. 

H. H. Milman. 



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APRIL 3. 

Our New Englanders were good Christians, but loth 
to give the sign of the cross for being so They chose a 
better sign of it, by being themselves crucified unto the 
vanities of the world. That which made the cross dis- 
agreeable to them was its being the great idol of Popery, 
which is but revived Paganism. Cotton Mather. 



APRIL 4. 

A little sun, a little rain, 

A soft wind blowing from the west, — 
And woods and fields are sweet again, 

And warmth within the mountain's breast. 

So simple is the earth we tread, 

So quick with life and love her frame; 

Ten thousand years have dawned and fled, 
And still her magic is the same. 

Stop ford A. Brooke. 



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APRIL 5. 

Christ took on him our nature that he might be our 
example in the exercise of virtue, and be a visible instance 
of the reward of it; that we might see the beauty, honor, 
and benefit of that virtue which it is proper for human be- 
ings to practice, and be animated to seek the like glory 
and obtain the like reward. 

Jonathan Edwards, 1703- 1758. 



APRIL 6. 

The sole order of nobility which becomes a phi- 
losopher is the rank he holds in the estimation of his fel- 
low-workers, the only competent judges. Newton and. 
Cuvier lowered themselves when the one accepted an idle 
knighthood, and the other became a baron of the empire. 
The great men who went to their graves as Michael Fara- 
day and George Grote understood the dignity of knowl- 
edge better when they declined such meretricious trap- 
pings. Thomas H. Huxley. 



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APRIL 7. 

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, 
And be each critic the good-natured man. 

How small of all that human hearts endure, 
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! 
Still to ourselves in every place consigned, 
Our own felicity we make or find. 

Oliver Goldsmith, died April, 1774, aged 46. 

I love to go in the capricious days 
Of April and hunt violets, when the rain 
Is in the blue cups trembling, and they nod 
So gracefully to the kisses of the wind. 

N. P. Willis 



APRIL 8. 

In the Commonwealth, I do not think it a mark of 
inconsistency to accommodate our measures, as we do the 
course we steer at sea, to the winds and storms of the po- 
litical horizon. Men are not always bound to defend the 
same opinions, but only such as the circumstances of the 
country, the current of popular opinion, and the preserva- 
tion of peace seem to render necessary. 

Cicero, died B. C. 43. 



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APRIL 9. 

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! 
O Duty! if that name thou love, 
Who art a light to guide, a rod 
To check the erring, and reprove : 
Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear 
The Godhead's most benignant grace; 
Nor know we anything so fair 
As is the smile upon thy face : 
Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, 
And fragrance in thy footing treads; 
Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; 
And the most ancient heavens, through 
Thee, are fresh and strong. 

William Wordsworth, born April 7, 1770. 



APRIL 10. 

To lay with one hand the power of the Government 
upon the property of the citizens, and with the other be- 
stow it on favored individuals to aid private enterprises and 
build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because 
it is done under the forms of law and taxation. 

Samuel F. Miller, born April 5, 181 1. 

(A Constitutional jurist, rivalled only by John Marshall. 

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APRIL ii. 

No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest 
evil; or temperate, who considers pleasure the highest 
good. , Cicero. 

Haste borders upon panic and timidity; slow move- 
ments are more akin to steady valor. 

Tacitus, died circe 120. 

A man's own observation, what he finds good of, and 
what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. 

Francis Bacon. 



APRIL 12. 

Give Pleasure's name to nought but what has passed 

The authentic seal of Reason, and defies 

The tooth of Time; when past, a pleasure still; 

Dearer on trial, lovelier for its age, 

And doubly to be prized, as it promotes 

Our future, while it forms our present joy. 

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APRIL 13. 

The God who gave us life gave us liberty; the hand 
of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. 

A wise and frugal government which shall restrain 
men from injuring one another, which shall leave them 
otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits, and shall not 
take from the month of labor the bread it has earned — 
this is the sum of good government, and this is necessary 
to close the circle of our felicities. 

We are all republicans — we are federalists. If there be 
any who would wish to dissolve this Union or change its 
republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monu- 
ments of the safety with which error of opinion may be 
tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. 

Thomas Jefferson, born April 13. 1743. 



APRIL 14. 

I have wished that I might do something to inaugu- 
rate faith in modern science, and that respect to which in 
the sublimity of its reasons it is entitled. Great will be 
the day when faith, laying hold of science, rising into in- 
tellectual majesty with it, is acknowledged in the sister- 
hood of a common purpose, and both set them in that 
final unity which represents the eternal headship of 
Christ. Horace Bushnett, born April 14, 1802. 



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APRIL 15. 

The abolition of primogeniture removed the feudal 
distinctions which made one member of every family rich, 
and the rest poor. The restoration of the rights of con- 
science relieved the people from taxation for the support 
of a religion not theirs; for the Establishment was the re- 
ligion of the rich. 

The principle of spending money to be paid by pos- 
terity is but swindling posterity on a large scale. 

Thomas Jefferson, 



APRIL 16. 

I shall be ready not only to be bound and banished, 
but to die in New England, for holy truths of God in 
Christ Jesus. Having made covenant of peaceable neigh- 
borhood with the sachems and nations round about, and 
having, of a sense of God's merciful providence to me in 
my distress, called the place Providence, I desired it might 
be for a shelter for persons distressed for conscience. 

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APRIL 17. 

In this broad universe of God's wisdom and love not 
leashes to restrain us are neded, but wings to sustain our 
flight. Let bold but reverent thought go on, and probe cre- 
ation's mysteries till Faith and Knowledge "make one 
music as before, but vaster." 

John Fiske, 1 842-1 901. 



APRIL 18. 

Unless I shall be refuted and convinced by the Holy 
Scriptures, or by clear and evident arguments and reasons, 
I cannot and will not retract anything; since I believe 
neither the pope nor the councils alone, both having often 
erred and contradicted themselves; and since it is not safe 
to do anything against the conscience. Here I stand. 1 
cannot do otherwise. God help me. , 

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APRIL 19. 

The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree 

I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed: 
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a 
seed. 

George Gordon Byron. 
Died April 19, 1824, aged 30. 



APRIL 20. 

By constitution man is, from center out, a religious 
being. Human nature has been made susceptible to divine 
influence, responsive to divine agency, capable of cooper- 
ating with God in history. The highest life possible for 
man is life under the inspiration of religious motives and 
aims. Apart from this inspiration, human life is abnormal, 
defective, sure to become degenerate. Through violation 
of natural and spiritual law human faculties become dis- 
ordered, the higher faculties enfeebled. 

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APRIL 21. 

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, 
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; 

Star of the East, the horizon adorning, 
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. 



Lo, the lilies of the field, 
How their leaves instruction yield! 
Hark to nature's lesson given 
By the blessed birds of heaven! 
Every bush and tufted tree 
Warbles sweet philosophy: 
Mortal, fly from doubt and sorrow; 
God provideth for the morrow. 

Reginald Heber, born April 21, 1783. 



APRIL 22. 

A garden is the purest of pleasures, the greatest re- 
freshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings 
and palaces are gross works. 

Francis Bacon. 

Brevity is the soul of wit. 

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APRIL 23. 

My heart leaps up when I behold 

A rainbow in the sky: 
So was it when my life began; 
So is it now I am a man; 
So be it when I shall grow old, 

Or let me die! 
The Child is father of the Man; 
And I could wish my days to be 
Bound each to each by natural piety. 

William Wordszvorth. 
Died April 23, 1850, aged 80. 



APRIL 24. 

Pride is littleness. The man whose eye , 

Is ever on himself doth look on one, 

The least of Nature's works, one who might move 

The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds 

Unlawful, ever. O be wiser, Thou! 

Instructed that true knowledge leads to love ; 

True dignity abides with him alone 

Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, 

Can still suspect, and still revere himself, 

In lowliness of heart. Wordsworth. 



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APRIL 25. 

The pulpit, in the sober use 

Of its legitimate, peculiar powers, 

Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, 

The most important, effectual guard, 

Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. 

There stands the messenger of truth; 

By him the violated law speaks out its thunders; 

And by him, in strains as sweet as angels use, 

The Gospel whispers peace. 



Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, 
Needs only to be seen to be admired. 

William Cowper, died April 25, 1800, aged 69. 

APRIL 26. 

We need not bid, for cloistered cell, 
Our neighbor and our work farewell, 
Nor strive to wind ourselves too high 
For sinful man beneath the sky : 

The trivial round, the common task, 
Would furnish all we ought to ask; 
Room to deny ourselves; a road 
To bring us daily nearer God. 



O naught but love and mercy wait 

Through all my life on me; 
And I within my Father's gate 

For long bright years shall be. 

John Keble, born April 25, 1792. 



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APRIL 27. 

The Capitol of old Rome beamed with the lustre of 
conquest; yours (the Capitol of the U. S. at Washington) 
is bright with freedom. The old absorbed the world into 
its own glory; yours protects your own nation from being 
absorbed, even by itself. The old was awful with unre- 
stricted power; yours is glorious for having restricted it. 
At the view of the old, nations trembled; at the view of 
yours, humanity hopes. While from the old a conquered 
world was ruled, you in yours provide for the common 
federative interests of a territory larger than that conquered 
world. There, sat men who boasted that their will was 
sovereign of the earth; here, sit men whose glory is to ac- 
knowledge the laws of nature and nature's God, and to do 
what their sovereign, the people, wills. 

Louis Kossuth, born April 27, 1802. 
(Address before members of Congress, 1852.) 



APRIL 28. 

The United States has tamed a savage continent, 
peopled a solitude, gathered untold wealth ,waxed potent; 
it remains for her to prove that the rule of the masses is 
consistent with the highest growth of the individual, that 
democracy can give the world a civilization and a man- 
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Of immortality the soul when well employed is in- 
curious. It is so well, it is sure it will be well. It asks no 
questions of the Supreme Power. Higher than the ques- 
tion of enduring is the question of deserving. It is higher 
to confide that if better we should live, we shall live, than 
to have lease of centuries and milleniums. Our dissatis- 
faction with every other solution is the blazing evidence of 
our immortality. 

R. W. Emerson, died April 27, 1882, aged 79. 



APRIL 30. 

Early habits of self-restraint, total abstinence from all 
excess, diligence in business, attention to our duties, and 
tranquillity of mind, would do more to abate disease than 
all physicians, to feed the hungry and clothe the naked 
than all Poor Laws and charitable institutions. 

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MAY i. 

It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well — 

Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, 

This longing after immortality? 

Or whence this secret dread and inward horror 

Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul 

Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 

'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; 

Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereatter, 

And intimates Eternity to man. 

Joseph Addison, born May I, 1672. 



MAY 2. 

Evedy other quality is subordinate to wisdom, as the 
mason who lays the brick and stones in a building is 
subordinate to the architect who drew the plan and super- 
intends the work. There is no faculty we exert, no skill 
we apply, but requires a superintending hand, and looks 
to some higher principle, as a maid to her mistress, for di- 
rection; and this universal superintendent is Wisdom. 
Hence Wisdom is to be considered as the top and summit 
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MAY 3. 

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. 
What is soul? It is immaterial. 

Thomas Hood, died May 3, 1845, a ged 47. 

Lilies of a day are fair and sweet in May; 

Although they fall and die that night, 

They are plants and flowers of light. 
In small proportions we just beauties see, 
And in short measure life may perfect be. 



MAY 4. 

My theory of life is no indolence theory. I have worked 
hard and mean to work hard on things which have a worthy 
end and use. What I protest against is asceticism, blind- 
ness to what is beautiful and pleasurable, a preference for 
the disagreeable, above all, a parting of life into this ele- 
ment and that, and a contempt of half the life we have 
to live as if it hindered us from living the other half. Mind, 
soul, and body, I would harmoniously develop together — 
neither intellectualism, nor spiritualism, nor sensualism, 
but a broad humanity. 

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MAY 5. 

Napoleon (died May 5, 1821) was a great legislator. 
Few enactments have had a more potent effect in moulding 
social and political life than the provision of the Code for 
the compulsory division of property. It checks population, 
enforces equality, constitutes the most powerful and con- 
servative of landed interests. 

Rosebery, born Sept. 19, 1847. 



MAY 6. 

If there's a Power above us, 

And that there is, all nature cries aloud 

Through all her works, He must delight in virtue. 

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles 

At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. 

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself 

Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years; 

But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, 

Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, 

The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. 

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MAY 7. 

This world is no blot for us, 

Xor blank; it means intensely, and means good. 

To find its meaning is my meat and drink. 

Robert Browning, born May 7, 1812. 

Browning's temper is that of a philosopher rather than 
poet. His versification and grammar are hard. He inter- 
prets human nature in its sadness as well as grotesqueness. 
With less of beauty in his writings than in other poets, 
there is more to be learnt from him. He said he wished 
to put as much thought as possible into his poetry, that 
Sophocles and other poets are full of difficulty. His repu- 
tation would have stood higher if he had published nothing 
during his last twenty years. 

Benjamin Jozvett, 181 7- 1898. 



MAY 8. 

There is no man who is leading a good life who is far 
from the kingdom of heaven. We must allow for differ- 
ences of character, for dislike of forms, for reaction against: 
early education, and not demand of every one that they- 
conform to the same pattern. He who has the love of 
God and man in his soul has the root of the matter in him; 
he who has any true love of man is not far from the love 
of God. B. Jozvett. 



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MAY 9. 

The history of the first three centuries is a history of a 
contest. The Church and the Empire started side by side. 
They met in the market, in the house, in the school, in 
;the institutions of government. In each Christianity tri- 
umphed, asserting its power over common life, over 
thought, over civil organization. These victories contain 
the promise of all that later ages have to reap. The victory 
of common life was first. It was wrought out in silence, in 
patience, in nameless agonies. It was the victory of the 
soldiers, not of the captains of Christ's army. 

Brooke Foss Westcott. 



MAY 10. 

That America marks the highest level, not only of 
material well-being, but of intelligence and happiness, 
which the race has yet attained, will be the judgment of 
those who look not at the favored few, for whose benefit 
the world seems hitherto to have framed its institutions, 
but at the whole body of the people. 

James Bryce, born May 10, 1838. 



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MAY ii. 

Those despised as ignorant, and set down as fools, no 
sooner commit themselves to the teachings of Jesus, than 
far from defiling themselves in shameless passion, they, in 
many cases, keep themselves, like priests for whom such 
pleasures have no charm, in act and thought in a state of 
purity. They do so for no human honors, for no fee or 
reward, from no motive of vain glory, but as they choose 
to retain God in their knowledge, they are preserved in a 
spirit well-pleasing to Him in the discharge of every duty, 
being filled with all goodness. Origen, 185 — 254. 



MAY 12. 

The highest honor of any nation is to preserve peace, 
even under provocations which might justify war; the deep- 
est disgrace is to plunge into war under circumstances 
which leave the honorable alternative of peace. 

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MAY 13. 

The greater message which Christ came into the world 
to declare was the love of God to man. He told men that 
their Father in heaven was more ready to hear than they 
were to ask; that He never cast out any who came, only 
they must renounce their sins; they could not be the friends 
of God and hate their brethren; they could not worship 
God in spirit and truth when they sought to be observed 
of men; they could not see God when their minds were 
darkened with impurity. But let them break through the 
hardness of heart which divided them from God, the veil of 
passion which hid Him from them, let them receive the 
word of Christ, and they too would become sons of God. 
They must forgive if they would be forgiven, do as they 
would be done by. So he sought to bring men back to 
that true image of humanity by which he was to reconcile 
them with one another and with God. This is the message 
of Christ to all mankind. B. Jowett. 



MAY 14. 

Older than the New Testament is that custom of pub- 
lic worship on Sundays, which after the example of Christ 
and Paul we continue. For more than eighteen hundred 
years there has never been a Sunday in which Christians 
have not met together; sometimes when the doors were 
shut for fear of the Jews, sometimes in edifices filled with 
worshippers. B. Jowett. 



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MAY 15. 

Columbia! Columbia! to glory arise, 
The queen of the world, and the child of the skies; 
Let the crimes of the east ne'er crimson thy name, 
Be freedom and science and virtue thy fame, 
While the ensigns of union, in triumph unfurled, 
Hush the tumult of war, and give peace to the world. 
Timothy Dwight, born May 14, 1752. 



MAY 16. 

No government ever did for a long period act out all 
the virtue of its original constitution. Hence every nation 
must perpetually renew its constitution, or perish. It is a 
great excellence of our system that sovereignty resides not 
in Congress and the President, nor in the governments of 
the States, but in the people of the United States. If the 
sovereign be just and uncorrupted, the government can be 
brought back from any aberration, and the constitution, if 
imperfect, can be amended. This idea of the sovereignty of 
the people over their government glimmers in the British 
system, while it fills our own with a broad and glowing 
light William H. Seward, born May 16, 1801. 



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MAY 17. 

We know the vast resources of the continent, the 
goodwill that is in the people, their conviction of the ad- 
vantages of freedom, social equality, education, religious 
culture, and their determination to penetrate every square 
mile of the country with American civilization. 

R. W. Emerson. 



MAY 18. 

All knowledge from reason is as really from God as 
revelation is. 

To preside and govern, from the constitution of man, 
belongs to the conscience. Had it strength as it has right, 
had it power as it has authority, it would absolutely gov- 
ern the world. 

Love and charity is plainly the thing in which our 
Saviour hath placed his religion; in which, therefore, as we 
have any pretense to the name of Christians, we must place 
ours. He hath enjoined it upon us by way of command, 
and by his example, having undertaken the work of our 
salvation out of pure love and good will to mankind. 

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MAY 19. 

O God of the spirits of all flesh, in whose embrace all 
creatures live, in whatever world or condition they be, we 
beseech Thee for him whose dwelling-place Thou knowest. 
Vouchsafe him light and rest, peace and refreshment, joy 
and consolation, in Paradise, in the companionship of 
saints, in the presence of Christ, in the ample folds of thy 
love. 

William E. Gladstone, died May 19, 1898, aged 87. 



MAY 20. 

Sometime before his death (May 20, 1506), Columbus 
was preparing a campaign for the rescue of the Holy 
Sepulchre at Jerusalem from the infidel. He did not know 
that while the mission of the Crusades was a fruitless task, 
the discovery of America was the salvation of the world. 
The tomb of the Saviour was an empty vault, precious only 
for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries; 
but the new continent was to be home and temple of the 
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MAY 21. 

Honor and shame from no condition rise; 
Act well your part — there all the honor lies. 
Know then this truth, enough for man to know, 
Virtue alone is happiness below, 
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, 
The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy; 
Never elated, while one man's opprest, 
Never dejected, while another's blest. 
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, 
Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence: 
But Health consists with temperance alone, 
And Peace, O Virtue, Peace is all thine own. 

Alexander Pope, born May 21, 1688. 



MAY 22. 

I inveigh against the increase of luxuries, and here 1 
expect the shout of modern politicians against me. It has 
been the fashion to consider luxury as one of the great 
national advantages, and the wisdom of antiquity in that 
particular as erroneous. Still I must remain a profound 
ancient on that head, and continue to think those luxuries 
prejudicial by Which so many vices are introduced. 

Oliver Goldsmith. 



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MAY 23. 

The Holy Spirit makes Christ the inspiration, and life, 
and genius of the Church. He is re-incarnated, as it were, 
in all believers from age to age, from country to country. 
Faith rests only on and in God as the Father of all spirits. 
So Jesus explained it, and realized it in his own person. To 
be identical with the religion of Jesus, the Church need no 
more reproduce the exact form of the Galilean Gospel than 
a man of fifty need resemble a new-born child. To assure 
ourselves of the identity of an individual, we do not try to 
squeeze him into his cradle. Development is necessary if 
religion is to survive. Loisy. 



MAY 24. 

Stay at home, my heart, and rest; 

The bird is safest in its nest; 
For all that flutter their wings and fly, 
A hawk is hovering in the sky; 

To stay at home is best. 

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MAY 25. 

The planting of America is the culmination of human- 
ity. We began well; no inquisition, no kings, no nobles, 
no dominant church. We are a nation of individuals, have 
a highly intellectual organization, can see moral distinc- 
tions — in this is our hope. Let the passion for America 
cast out the passion for Europe. This country is the great 
charity of God to the human race. 

R. IV. Emerson, born May 25, 1802. 



MAY 26. 

A man of liberal attainments addicted himself to- the 
Gospel, traveling from country to country, enduring every 
species of hardship, encountering every extremity of dan- 
ger, assaulted by the populace, punished by the magis- 
trates, scourged, beat, stoned, left for dead, expecting, 
wherever he came, a renewal of the same treatment, yet 
when driven from one city preaching in the next, spending 
his whole time in the employment, sacrificing to it his ease, 
his safety, persisting in the course to old age, unaltered by 
the experience of perverseness, ingratitude, prejudice, de- 
sertion, unsubdued by anxiety, want, labor, persecutions, 
unwearied by long confinement, undismayed by the pros- 
pect of death. Such was Paul. 

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MAY 27. 

I find the Greek language most important for the 
study of language, the cultivation of taste, and for present 
profit and delight. Some knowledge of it is essential to a 
thorough understanding of our English tongue. In the 
ministry, I consider it essential to read the New Testament 
in the language in which it was written. I am a poor 
Greek scholar, but do not know of any possession I would 
take in exchange for such Greek as I know. 

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, 
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me, 
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. 
While God is marching on. 

Julia Ward Howe, born May 27, 18 19. 



MAY 28. 

Thou art, O God, the life and light 
Of all this wondrous world we see ; 

Its glow by day, its smile by night, 
Are but reflections caught from Thee: 

Where'er we turn thy glories shine, 

And all things fair and bright are thine. 

Thomas Moore, born May 28, 1779. 



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MAY 29 

From wholesome labor come, 
The good man reaches home, 
Meets at the door the best of human blisses, 
His chaste wife's welcome and dear children's kisses. 

Virgil B, C. 70-19. 



MAY 30. 

With notes of bugle-song and drum, 
With flying flags and sweet mayflowers, 

And grateful hearts, again we come 
To deck these soldier-graves of ours. 

S. H. M. Byers. 

On fame's eternal camping ground, 

Their silent tents are spread, 
And glory guards with solemn round 

The bivouac of the dead. 

Theodore O'Hara. 



MAY 31. 

Desertion of duty is the unpardonable sin. 

Horace Mann, born May 4, 1796. 



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JUNE i. 

Heaven now is given away, 

And God is here each day; 

He sets no price on the lavish summer; 

June is here for the poorest comer. 

James R. Lowell, born Feb. 22, 1819. 

These, as they change, Almighty Father, these 
Are but the varied God. The rolling year 
Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring 
Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love; 
Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm; 
And every sense, and every heart is joy. 
Then comes thy glory in the Summer months, 
With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun 
Shoots full perfection through the swelling year. 

James Thomson, 1700- 1748. 



JUNE 2. 

I say to thee, Do thou repeat 

To the first man thou mayest meet, 

In lane, highway, or open street, 

That he, and we, and all men move 

Under a canopy of Love; 

As broad as the blue sky above. 

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JUNE 3. 

The Son of God reiteratively taught his disciples, "Call 
110 man master on earth, for One is your Master, even 
Christ, and all ye are brethren." The command emanci- 
pates me from all human mastership. I am free of all men, 
of all orders or organizations, of all hierarchies. By so 
much the more am I under law to God, and I am bound to 
all his children in equal brotherhood. The command de- 
velops into Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, breathing 
upon the church and the world a higher life, a holier civili- 
zation. Truman M. Post, born June 3, 1810. 



JUNE 4. 

Freedom is liable to abuse, but under the Divine Spirit 
tends to self-cure. The wounded oak by the power of life 
heals itself; the mutilated Parthenon goes on to dilapida- 
tion. Freedom is culture, and the free soul in immediate 
vision of God must grow into the likeness of the Ineffably 
Beautiful. T. M. Post. 



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JUNE 5. 

How lovely is domestic happiness, 
Where mind on mind and heart on heart repose 
Undoubting; and the friends, whom Providence 
Has brought together, sharing each with each 
Their hopes, their joys, their cares, appear to live 
One common life, and breathe one common will! 
So beautiful is this; and where the love 
Of God is added to this love of man, 
Somewhat of heaven itself to earth descends. 
For what is heaven, but one immortal home, 
Where all are happy, loving and beloved? 

Henry F. Lytc, born June I, 1793. 



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JUNE 6. 

Freedom and Faith are the tutelar forces of modern 
civilization. Of Protestantism the life- principle is spiritual 
liberty. All violations of this principle, calling themselves 
by its name, are abuses and misnomers. You may as well 
require me to see without my own eyes, or to hear without 
my own ears, as to believe without my own judgment. 

T. M. Fost. 



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JUNE 7. 

Whose soul takes Untruth for its bride, 
And sets himself on Evil's side, 
Chooses the Black, and sure it is 
His path leads down to the abyss ; 
But he who doth his nature feed 
With stedfastness and loyal deed, 
Lies open to the heavenly light, 
And takes his portion with the White. 

Wolfram von Eschenbach. 

Of all bestialities that is the most vile and foolish and 
hurtful which believes there is no other life after this. 

Dante, 1 265-1 321. 

HelFs mouth yawns before the feet of every man 
everywhere who goeth about to do evil. Dante could not 
find images loathsome enough to express the deformity 
wrought by sin. /. R. Lowell. 

JUNE 8. 

In the parables of Jesus the laws of nature are shown 
to be the analogues of the laws of the soul. The pure in 
heart see God by the condition of their being. Goodness 
is heaven, here and hereafter. Sin is hell, in this and in all 
worlds. Thus is Jesus the atonement, who unites law and 
love, faith and reason, the natural and supernatural, sinful 
and finite man with the holy and infinite God. Around 
this divinely human character, Son of God and Son of 
Man, Christians must one day unite. And then his sublime 
prayer will be fulfilled, "That they all may be one, as Thou, 
Father, art in me, and I in Thee." 

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JUNE 9. 

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; 
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, 
Which go through the world, you'll not meet with else- 
where. 
Home! Home! Sweet Home! There's no place like Home. 
John Howard Payne, born June 9, 1792. 

I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our 
Lord Jesus Christ, and I exhort my children to guids them- 
selves by the teachings of the New Testament. 

Charles Dickens, died June 9, 1870. 

JUNE 10. 

In South America there is room for five hundred mil- 
lion more people. Some day it will have that many, and 
all w r ill acknowledge the Government at Washington. We 
in England will not grudge you this added power. With 
the completion of the canal across the Isthmus, you must 
have control of the Egypt of the new w^orld. 

Simple gifts are given freely in the house where good meir 

dwell, 
Greeting fair, and room to rest in; fire and water from the: 

well. 
Pity them that crave thy pity; who art thou to stint thy 

hoard, 
When the holy moon shines equal on the leper and the 

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O Love Divine! uplift, ennoble, recreate me, 
Redeem me from my fond self-love, 
And guide me in thy saving school, 
By thy loving rule. 

Frederic D. Huntington, 1819-1904. 

Vice in general consists in having an unreasonable and 
too great regard to self in comparison of others. 

Joseph Butler. 

JUNE 12. 

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; 

Do noble things, not dream them all day long; 
And so make life, death, and that vast forever, 

One grand, sweet song. 

. Charles Kingsley, born June 12, 18 19. 

(Thomas Arnold, died June 12, 1842) 
O strong soul, by what shore 
Tarriest thou now? For that force, 
Surely, has not been left vain! 
Somewhere, surely, afar, 
In the sounding labor-house vast 
Of being, is practised that strength, 
Zealous, beneficent, firm. 
And through thee I believe 
In the noble and great who are gone; 
Pure souls honored and blest 
By former ages, friends of mankind. 

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JUNE 13. 

Where can we find a name so holy that we may sur- 
render our whole souls to it, before which obedience, rev- 
erence, humility, adoration, may all be duly rendered? 
There is one name alone in heaven and earth — not truth, 
not justice, not benevolence, not Christ's mother, not his 
holiest servants, not his sacraments, not the church, but 
Jesus Christ Himself only. Newman and his party put 
Christ's church and sacraments and ministers in the place 
of Christ. 

I am called a no-Church man, because I respect not 
the idol which has slipped into God's place, that is, the 
Priesthood, which does not seem to me to be false only in 
its excess, but altogether false from the beginning, the mas- 
ter falsehood, still spared as a harmless and venerable 
error, if not as a sacred truth. 

Thomas Arnold, born /une 13, 1795. 



JUNE 14. 

My good health is summed up in one word, Modera- 
tion. I am a moderate eater and drinker, moderate in my 
work, as well as in my pleasure, and I believe the best way 
to preserve the mental and physical faculties is to keep 
them employed. 

W. C. Bryant, died June 12, 1878, aged 84. 

Bryant had the wisdom of age in his youth, and the 
fire of youth in his age. 

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JUNE 15. 

The American government is the only permanent re- 
public which ever based itself upon the principles laid down 
by Jesus Christ of the brotherhood of man and the rights 
of men on the simple ground of manhood. This was the 
leading idea of the men who founded our government. 
The Declaration of Independence crystalized a religious 
teaching within a political act. The Constitution still fur- 
ther elaborates these principles. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe, born June 15, 181 1. 



JUNE 16. 

To be righteous implies the love of righteousness; to 
be benevolent, the love of benevolence; to be good, the 
love of goodness; and the love of God is the love of perfect 
goodness contemplated in a being lor person. Thus mo- 
rality and religion, virtue and piety, will at last coincide, run 
up into one and the same point, and love be in all senses 
the end of the commandment. 

O Almighty God, inspire us with this divine principle ; 
kill in us all seeds of envy and ill-will; help us, by culti- 
vating within ourselves the love of our neighbor, to im- 
prove in the love of Thee. Thou hast placed us in various 
kindreds, friendships, and relations, as the school of disci- 
pline for our affections. Help us by the exercise of them to 
improve to perfection; till all partial affection be lost in that 
entire universal one, and Thou, O God, shalt be all in all. 
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JUNE 17. 

Though always in haste, I am never in a hurry. I fret 
at nothing. I have kept my accounts exactly for upwards 
of seventy-six years. I save all I can. and give all I can. 

John Wesley, born June 17, 1703. 



JUNE 18 

In the Catholic service-book the lessons are in general 
shorter than in ours. They aim at being complete in them- 
selves, and at producing one distinct impression, which is 
the right aim for lessons. Chapters are broken up, verses 
left out, and things naturally related brought together, to 
produce a clearer impression. The unknown arranger of 
these old lessons followed the inst-nct of a true critic, love 
for what is clear and impressive. He is an instance of the 
truth that in many cases Catholics are less superstitious in 
dealing with the Bible than Protestants. 

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JUNE 19. 

Nature is an infinite sphere; the center is everywhere, 
the circumference nowhere. The whole visible world is but 
an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature. 

The secrets of nature are concealed. Time reveals 
them from age to age. In this way we can embrace new 
opinions, without undervaluing the ancients; the knowl- 
edge they have given us, has served as a stepping-stone 
to our acquisitions. The cells of bees were as well propor- 
tioned a thousand years ago as at the present time, and 
each bee forms the hexagon as exactly the first time as the 
last. Not so with man. He gains knowledge as he ad- 
vances in years; he takes advantage not only of his own 
experience, but of that of his predecessors. 

Blaise Pascal, born June 19, 1623. 



JUNE 20, 

When faith and patience, hope and love, 
Have made us meet for heaven above, 
How blest the privilege to rise, 
Snatched in a moment to the skies! 
Unconscious to resign our breath, 
Nor taste the bitterness of death. 
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JUNE 21. 

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us; it is 
the union of our souls with God. 

It is superstition to repose confidence in forms and 
ceremonies; not to submit to them is pride. 

Though we should be mistaken in the belief that the 
Christian Religion is true, we should lose little by it; but 
if it be true, how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it 
false. 

Asked if I repented of having written the Provincial 
Letters, I answered, That if I had to do it again, I would 
write them yet more strongly. If condemned at Rome, 
that which I condemn in them, is condemned in heaven. 

The Inquisition and the Society of Jesuits are the two 
scourges of the truth. Blaise Pascal. 



JUNE 22. 

Man was made to grow, not stop: 
The help he needed once, 
The ladder on which he rose, 
He needs no more. 
Let him rise from each new height 
To higher things. 

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He who fixed immoveably the frame 

Of the round world hath built, by laws as strong, 

The towers of Righteousness. 

William Wordsworth. 



JUNE 24. 

The American people, by virtue of their liberty, intel- 
ligence, and civil and religious polity, are a nation loving- 
law better than any other nation on earth. It is the glory 
of our institutions that it makes the people the fountain of 
the law. Nowhere else is there a disposition so universal 
to observe that which is found to be just. We are not a 
warlike people, although capable of war on a just occasion. 
It is not to our taste. It is not in consonance with our 
polity, the current of our thoughts, or the occupation of 
our minds. 

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, 
but for the whole world's joy, and so God sits effulgent in 
heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life, 
and there is no creature so low that it may not look up and 
say, "My Father! Thou art mine. ,, 

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JUNE 25. 

The overthrow of Satan is not yet completed, nor was 
designed to he till the end of the world. Christ expects his 
followers to be tried like himself, waging the same war that 
he did against the same enemy. One is possessed by the 
devil, when he rebels against God by breaking his com- 
mandments, especially when he falls into those sins which 
characterize the Tempter, such as envy, hatred, malice, and 
lying, of which he is described as "the father." 

Richard Whateiy. 



JUNE 26. 

Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve, 

And press with vigor on! 
A heavenly race demands thy zeal, 

And an immortal crown. 

How gentle God's commands! 

How kind his precepts are! 
Come, cast your burdens on the Lord, 

And trust his constant care. 

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JUNE 27. 

Partiality to ourselves is dishonesty. For a man to 
judge that to be the equitable, right part for him, which he 
would see to be harsh, unjust, oppressive in another, is 
plain vice, and can proceed only from great unfairness of 
mind. 

Mankind hath the rule of right within himself. Your 
obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your 
nature. Conscience carries its own authority, that it is our 
natural guide, assigned to us by the Author of our nature. 

Joseph Butler. 



JUNE 28. 

Time was when I believed that wrong 

In others to detect, 
Was part of genius, and a gift 

To cherish, not reject: 
Now better taught by Thee, O Lord, 

Make me all light within, 
Self-hating and compassionate, 

And blind to others' sin, 

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JUNE 29. 

Theology is not a closed and completed science, but 
a work for long generations of workmen. It is never other 
than tentative. No one knows better than the writer that 
his work ("Religions of Authority and the Religion of the 
Spirit") is only a preliminary essay. If he binds up his 
sheaf, it is only that he may show the fertility of the field, 
and attract new laborers to it abler than himself. Never 
does he shut his eyes to the fact that his sheaf, so pain- 
fully and perhaps prematurely bound, must be unbound 
again, to receive ears grown at an earlier day which he 
ought not" to have overlooked, and ears of a new harvest 
not yet come to maturity. 

Auguste Sabatier, died Ap. 12, 1901. 



JUNE 30. 

Education is the passage from faith in authority to 
personal conviction of truths clearly recognized. 

The individual who exploits or destroys the social 
bond is like a child who to warm himself sets fire to the 
house of his fathers. The society which sacrifices the 
rights, 'the education, and the advancement of the indi- 
vidual to its own selfish advantage, is like a mother who 
devours her children. 

Moral forces are better than legal forces. Virtue is 
better than laws of prohibition. My property will be bet- 
ter guarded if I live among honest people, than by the 
police if I live among thieves. A. Sabatier. 



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JULY i. 

Abhor luxury with all your soul. Beneath her fair 
garments lies a loathsome body and the claws of a beast; 
but under the homely robes of a simple and pure Hfe ; 
beauty breathes in the very body, and the heart throbs with 
everlasting health. Stop ford A. Brooke. 



JULY 2. 

Burn me or not burn me, I am fixt : 
It is but a communion, not a mass, 
A holy supper, not a sacrifice; 
No man can make his Maker. 

higher, holier, earlier, purer church, 

1 have found thee, and not leave thee any more. 
As for the Pope I count him Antichrist, 

With all his devil's doctrines; and refuse, 
Reject him, and abhor him. 

Thomas Cranmer. 
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JULY 3. 

Liberty, law, and public power are the elements of 
social life. Law and liberty without power are anarchy; 
law and force without liberty make a despotism; force 
alone is barbarism; liberty and law, joined with force, 
make the Republic, the only good civil constitution. 

Immanuel Kant, 1724- 1804. 

America! half-brother of the world. 

Philip James Bailey. 



JULY 4. 

'Tis freedom fires us all, and strengthens each brave son, 
Prom him who guides the plough to godlike Washington. 
No pent up Utica contracts our powers, 
But the whole boundless continent is ours. 

Jonathan M. Sezvall, 1749-180S. 



She that lifts up the manhood of the poor, 

She of the open soul and open door, 

With room about her hearth for all; 

The mighty mother of a mighty brood, 

Blessed in all tongues, and dear to every blood, 

The beautiful, the strong, and best of all, the good. 

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JULY 5. 

"History is the light of truth," says Cicero; a noble 
expression, which reflects honor on the pure and upright 
mind of its author. On the clearness and steadiness of this 
light, depends its value in guiding us through the obscure 
and difficult passages of human life. Tacitus has remarked 
that it is the office of the historian to take care that virtue 
be not passed over in silence, but so to represent things, 
that men may fear to do evil, from dread of the shame 
which may await them in posterity. A love of history is 
inseparable from a regard for ourselves. We feel great 
pleasure in reading histories which present examples of 
what ennobles and exalts the human character. 

Nathaniel Hazvthome, born July 4, 1804. 



JULY 6. 

Liberty that is partial, that does not assert herself for 
all, is suicidal. To be immortal, Liberty must be universal 

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JULY 7. 

Great minds, and perhaps great minds only, under- 
stand the exquisite truth, that no man stands in another's 
way in the road to honor, that the world is wide enough for 
the virtues and talents of all. 

Joseph Story, 1779- 1845. 

Content thyself to be obscurely good, 

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, 

The post of honor is a private station. 

Joseph Addison. 



JULY 8. 

The business of our redemption is to rub over the de- 
faced copy of the creation, reprint God's image upon the 
soul, and set forth nature in a second and fairer edition. 
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JULY 9. 

Look through the whole of life. The strongest moral 
obligations were never the result of our option. The 
Author of our being is the Author of our place in the 
order of existence; and having disposed and marshalled 
us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but accord- 
ing to his, He has, in and by that disposition, subjected us 
to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us. 
The place of every man determins his duty. It is not right 
to turn duties into doubts. They are to govern our con- 
duct, not exercise our ingenuity. Our opinion about them 
ought not to be in a state of fluctuation, but steady, sure, 
and resolved. 

Edmund Burke, died July 9, 1797, aged 67. 



JULY 10. 

The longer on the earth we live, 
And weigh the various qualities of men, 
The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty 
Of plain devotedness to duty. 

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JULY ii. 

It has been the custom in Europe among the cham- 
pions of monarchy, to foretell the downfall of our political 
institutions, the end of our national existence. We have 
outlived these predictions. The extent of our territory, 
the increase of population, the multiplication of our States, 
have added to our political stability. We have solved the 
problem whether a people are capable of self-government, 
and have proved that a government resting upon the as- 
sent, co-operation, and responsibility of an intelligent 
people, is the most stable and beneficent yet devised by 
man. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 



JULY 12. 

In the books of the Bible are some disagreements in 
chronology and confusion of numbers. To waste time on 
these questions is more suited to an idle than to a studious 
man. Paul's speaking against genealogies and Jewish 
fables seems to forbid questions of this kind. 

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JULY 13. 

The opening up of the New World has been called the 
greatest event in history. So perhaps it was; but to Spain 
it was the greatest curse. Before that time her people were 
tilling the soil, building up manufactures, spreading their 
commerce, laying foundations of substantial and enduring 
prosperity. The wealth of Mexico and Peru changed them 
into a race of adventurers and robbers. 

Douglas Campbell, born July 13, 1840. 



JULY 14. 

The gods are just, 
And of our pleasant vices make instruments 
To scourge us. Shakespeare. 



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JULY 15. 

Repentance is heart sorrow, and a clean life; 
Nothing else can save from wrath and perdition. 

Shakespeare. 

The preaching of the Apostles was the voice of their 
Divine Master prolonged in its majestic simplicity. For 
beauty, plainness, the words of Jesus are a model to 
preachers, as his life is their example. 

Henry E. Manning, born July 15, 1808. 



JULY 16. 

To place the spirit above the letter, the principle above 
the rule, was the aim of Christ, and the cause of the dis- 
like he met with. This affords an answer to the question 
whether it be not dangerous to draw a parallel between his 
office and ours. I reply that except in fellowship and one- 
ness with that life, and parallel feelings and struggles, I do 
not see how life would be tolerable. He was Humanity, 
and in him alone my humanity becomes intelligible. 

F. W . Robertson. 



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JULY 17. 

The world is full of books, but multitudes are so ill 
written, they were never worth reading; and thousands 
more are worth nothing When the occasion is past for 
which they were written. Your business in reading is to 
improve your knowledge. Deal freely with every author 
you read, and yield your assent only to evidence and just 
reasoning. 

Seize upon truth where'er 'tis found, 

Among your friends, among your foes, 
On Christian or on heathen ground; 
The flower's divine where'er it grows; 
Neglect the prickles, and assume the rose. 

Isaac Watts, born July 17, 1674. 



JULY 18. 

The Christian church has not yet presented its perfect 
aspect to the world; the belief of each successive age of 
Christendom has varied from the belief of its predecessor; 
each successive form of theology is but approximation to 
truth, not the whole truth; it is the glory of the church to 
be always advancing; there still remains a higher Chris- 
tianity. 

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JULY 19. 

An epoch was at hand, a new hero, unlike any character 
Jew or Greek had expected. What was that new birth of 
time? An innocent Child, a humble, inquiring Boy, a Man 
who knew what was in man, full of sorrow, full of joy, 
gracious to the weak, stern to the insincere, who went 
about doing good, who spake as never man spake, in 
whose transcendent goodness and truthfulness there was 
a new image of the Divine nature, a new idea of human 
destiny, a fulfilment the reverse of that which was expected, 
Israelite, Oriental by race, Greek in the wide penetration 
of his sympathy, Roman in the majesty of his authority. 

A. P. Stanley. 



JULY 20. 

The Lord is come! In every heart, 

Where truth and mercy claim a part; 

In every land where right is might, 

And deeds of darkness shun the light; 

In every church, where faith and love 

Lift up the thoughts to things above; 

In every holy, happy home, 

We bless Thee, Lord, that Thou hast come. 

A. P. Stanley. 



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JULY 21. 

I charge you before God that you follow me no fur- 
ther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. 
If God reveal anything to you by any other instrument of 
his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive 
any truth by my ministry; for I am confident the Lord 
has more truth to break forth out of his word. I cannot 
sufficiently bewail the condition of the Reformed Churches, 
who are come to a period in religion. The Lutherans 
cannot go beyond what Luther saw, and the Calvinists 
stick where Calvin left them. Remember, It is an article 
of your Church-covenant that you be ready to receive 
whatever truth shall be made known to you. 

John Robinson, 
upon the embarcation of the Pilgrim Fathers for America, 

July 21, 1620. 



JULY 22. 

The learned, accomplished, unassuming, and inoffen- 
sive Robinson. 

We have no evidence that our New England ances- 
tors would have emigrated from their native country, be- 
come wanderers in Europe, and undertaken a colony here, 
merely from dislike of the political systems of Europe. 
They fled from the Hierarchy, and the laws which enforced 
conformity to the Church Establishment. 

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JULY 23. 

Let us not forget the religious character of our origin. 
Our fathers were brought here by their high veneration 
for the Christian Religion. They journeyed by its light, 
and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its 
principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse 
its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or 
literary. Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this 
influence still more widely; in the full conviction, that that 
is the happiest society, which partakes in the highest de- 
gree of the mild and peaceable spirit of Christianity. 

Daniel Webster. 



JULY 24. 

The Puritans flying from the Marian persecution to 
Geneva found there a commonwealth without a king and 
a church without a bishop. Rufus Choate, 1799-1859. 

And still their spirit, in their sons, with freedom walks 

abroad ; 
The Bible is our only creed; our only monarch, God; 
The hand is raised, the word is spoke, the solemn pledge 

is given, 
And boldly on our banner floats, in the free air of heaven, 
The motto of our sainted sires, — and loud we'll make it 

ring — 
"A church without a bishop, and a state without a king." 

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JULY 25. 

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great re- 
ward. It has soothed my afflictions ; multiplied and refined 
my enjoyments; endeared solitude, and given me the habit 
of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all 
that surrounds me. 

Samuel T. Coleridge, died July 25, 1834, aged 62. 



JULY 26. 

The life, character, and teachings of Jesus, his insight 
of human nature, his conception of the kingdom of heaven, 
his foresight of its destiny, give him a perpetually increas- 
ing influence over human society in cultivated ages. Faith 
in that Christ will produce reformation of character and 
purity of life. The multitudes who adopt it will become a 
w-orld-wide fraternity, impelled by that philanthropy which 
was characteristic of his career, to imitate him. This is 
to be the church of the future. 

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JULY 27. 

Neander calls the Sermon on the Mount "the Magna 
Charta of the Kingdom of God." It is a fine phrase, and 
in one sense completely true. But the idea of God which 
fills the discourse is not of King, but of Father. The king- 
dom was originally a family. It belonged to the king, 
as the family belongs to the father. The noblest heathen 
felt this ; and Zeus is king or father of gods and men. But 
the words tended to drift apart. Lordship and command 
belonged to kingship; love and care to fatherhood. The 
passing over of kingship into fatherhood is what gives the 
Sermon on the Mount its everlasting value. This is the 
key to the Sermon. Phillips Brooks. 



JULY 28. 

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies 
In other men, sleeping, but never dead, 
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. 

/. R. Lowell. 

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JULY 29. 

It is not necessary that God should speak in order to 
disclose the signs of his will. We may discern them in the 
tendency of events. The progressive development of social 
equality is the past and future of history, and has the char- 
acter of a divine decree. To attempt to check democracy is 
in this case to resist the will of God. 

Alexis De Tocqueville, bom July 29, 1805. 



JULY 30. 

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 
This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, 

Left the warn precincts of the cheerful day, 
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? 

Thomas Gray, died July 30, 1771, aged 55. 



JULY 31. 

Men need to have faith in a social embodiment of the 
spirit which was in Jesus, associations that shall apply the 
Divine spirit to every relation of life; by which in our ex- 
isting society we may be educated from its prejudices and 
falsehoods into the truth as it is in Jesus, into the applica- 
tion of his life and teachings to the problems which now 
cloud our path — slavery, hired labor, pauperism, crime. 
James Handasyd Perkins, born July 31, 1810. 



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AUGUST i. 

The minister in days like these ought to make it his 
duty as well as his right to express the fellowship of faith 
with all believers, whatever christian name they bear. Let 
not religon seem the affair of a party. 

We ought never to seem to have despaired of truth, 
or leave the region of thought, and retreat into organiza- 
ton and drill as safe refuges. This is what ecclesiasticism 
and ritualism have done. Phillips Brooks. 



AUGUST 2. 

There is no parallel to the authority of Christ. He 
bears no sword. He has no armies. He reigns in con- 
science, the one person in all time whose authority cannot 
be disputed, yet which never rests on physical force. He 
is supreme through the ascendancy of his almighty love. 
He holds men as the law of gravitation holds the physical 
universe, and they circle around him, every planet in its 
place, every sun in its sphere, moving in harmony by his 
supreme love. Andrew M. Fairbaim. 



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AUGUST 3. 

The system of parochial churches, each a center of all 
Christian influences, is essential to the right working of 
our principle of local self-government in the State. The 
genius of our people dreads the centralization of power, 
refuses to collect the majority of government into one 
imperial locality, sets up everywhere the municipal, local 
democracy, and insists that the people shall attend to the 
business of governing themselves. In such a system of 
society, the only religious principle, so far as order and 
organization are concerned, in harmony with the genius of 
the people, is the principle of self-governed churches. How 
happy the lot of a great people whose institutions in Church 
and State rest on the basis of local self-government! 

Leonard Bacon, died Dec. 23, 1881, aged 80. 



AUGUST 4. 

The State ought not to be considered as a partnership 
for a temporary interest, to be dissolved by the fancy of 
the parties. It is a partnership in all science, in all art, in 
every virtue, in all perfection. As the ends of such a part- 
nership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes 
a partnership not only between those who are living, but 
between those who are living and those who are dead, and 
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AUGUST 5. 

The Mayflower and the Speedwell, freighted with the 
first colony of New England, leave Southampton for Amer- 
ica, August 5. 1620. They had not gone far before the 
smaller vessel was found to need repairs, and they put back 
to Plymouth, and dismiss her. 

George Bancroft, 1800-1891. 



May freedom's oak for ever live 

With stronger life from day to day; 
That man's the best Conservative 

Who lops the mouldered branch away. 
Gigantic daughter of the West, 

We drink to thee across the flood; 
We know thee and we love thee best, 

For art thou not of British blood? 

Alfred Tennyson, born Aug. 5, 1809. 



AUGUST 6. 

The best manner of preparing for the last moment is 
to spend all the preceding well. The Christian life is a long 
and continued tendency toward the Eternal Goodness. Our 
happiness consists in thirsting for it. This thirst is prayer. 
Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never 
cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce 
many words. The best of all prayers is to act with a pure 
intention, a continual reference to the will of God. 

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AUGUST 7. 

The witness of History to Christ has ever seemed to 
my mind the most convincing external evidence of our 
faith. We read the systems of ancient philosophy, and in 
spite of great and noble elements in which they abound, 
we see their incapacity to regenerate the world. Then we 
see the light of Christianity dawning. It breathes a new 
life, a new hope, and a new holiness into a guilty and de- 
crepit world. We see the work grow and spread. And we 
recall the principle the wise Rabbi uttered, "If this work be 
of men, it will come to nought; but if of God, ye cannot 
overthrow it." 

Frederic W, Farrar, born Aug. 7, 183 1. 



AUGUST 8. 

We humbly believe the day is fast approaching when 
He whom Jews crucified, and whose revelation Christians 
have often disgraced, will break down the partition between 
them, and make both races one in religion, in heart, and 
life — Semite and Aryan, Jew and Gentile, united to bless 
and evangelize the world. F. W, Farrar. 



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AUGUST 9. 

For many blessings because they be common, most 
men forget to pay their praises, but let not us; because it 
is a sacrifice pleasing to Him that made us, and protects 
us, and gives us flowers and showers and stomachs and 
leisure to go a fishing. 

Izaak Walton, born Aug. 9, 1593. 



AUGUST 10, 

Religion is of as much use to the State as education, 
and more. If it pervades society, the number of poor and 
of criminals will be greatly reduced. It is in fact the prin- 
cipal auxiliary in all common interests. The difficulties in 
regard to separation of Church and State are too strong 
to be overcome, for they arise from that multiplicity of 
sects, which is the product of human freedom and human 
weakness, mixing the realities of Christianity with specula- 
tions beyond the domain of practical religion or touching 
the nature of the church. Hence, while religion is a prime 
interest of the State, and should be allied with it on some 
plan, in practice it must be separated, because men of equal 
rights cannot agree what is truth. 

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There is in solitude a power 
To calm the breast when passions lower; 
Touched by its influence, in the soul arise 
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. 



Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, 

Lead Thou me on! 
The night is dark, and I am far from home ; 

Lead Thou me on! 
Keep Thou my feet! I do not ask to see 
The distant scene — one step enough for me. 

John H. Newman, died Aug. n, 1890, aged 89. 



AUGUST 12. 

The Gospel of John tells us most of what we know 
about the mind of Jesus. The word truth is found upon the 
lips of Jesus only in that book. This utterance in the 
fourth Gospel does not appear in the other three. John is 
more to us than Matthew. A word of Jesus, which most 
impressed the most sympathetic and spiritual of his disci- 
ples, will admit us into his heart. It is a word of the intel- 
lect. When we find it constantly in the record of that dis- 
ciple who understood him best, we know that He cared 
for the intellect of man, that He was not satisfied simply 
to win man's affection by kindness, or govern man's will by 
authority, but also wished to persuade man's mind with 
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AUGUST 13. 

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that 
her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the 
world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the 
very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not ex- 
empt from her power: both angels and men, and creatures 
of what condition soever, though each in different sort and 
manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as 
the mother of their peace and joy. 

Richard Hooker, 15 53- 1609. 



AUGUST 14. ~ " 

The application of Christ as a living, present person?, 
is our perpetual need. He must walk amid the golden can- 
dlesticks, or vain their gold, vain their shining. He must 
hold the stars in his right hand, or the constellary bands 
are broken, "the sweet influences" cease to bind the Plei- 
ades. We need to feel Him as a living presence, enrobing 
us as with another being, dwelling in us as a new and 
higher life, the Supreme Head, the Coronal Mind, the 
Central Heart. Truman M. Post. 



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AUGUST 15. 

Within this awful volume lies 
The mystery of mysteries. 
O happiest they of human race 
To whom our God has given grace 
To hear, to read, to fear, to pray, 
To lift the latch, and force the way: 
But better had they ne'er been born, 
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. 

Walter Scott, born Aug. 15, 1771. 



AUGUST 16. 

The Reformation was the re-establishment of the prin- 
ciples of primitive Christianity. The one was the re-ap- 
pearance of the other. In the sixteenth century Christian- 
ity displayed the same regenerative power which it had 
exercised in the first. God chose the Reformers of the 
church from the same worldly condition, from whence He 
had before taken the Apostles. Zwingle emerged from a 
shepherd's hut among the Alps; Melanethon, the theolo- 
gian of the Reformation, from the work-shop; Luther, from 
the cottage of a poor miner. 

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AUGUST 17. 

The prophetic function of the church is undervalued. 
Men come to church, and say they come to worship God, 
not to hear man. What do they mean? What is it to wor- 
ship? Is it to sing a fourth-rate hymn to a third-rate tune? 
Is it offering unpremeditated supplications in an uncon- 
nected prayer? If God lives, must He not speak to you as 
well as hear you speak to him? What is the sermon but 
God's speech to you? The man who dares to speak for 
God ought to spend his days in God's company, ought to 
think himself into the mysteries of his truth. You laymen, 
who like to see the minister on the street, and have him 
in the house, and meet him in society, and expect him to 
be everywhere save where he ought to be, in the society of 
God, — let me tell you that not until the churches know 
what to expect of the men who are their prophets, and min- 
isters know to give inspired thought in inspired speech, will 
the church rise to her divine function. A. M. Fairbairn. 



AUGUST 18. 

Shall we the Spirit's course restrain, 

Or quench the heavenly fire? 
Let God his messengers ordain, 

And whom He will, inspire. 

Charles Wesley, 1708- 1788. 



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AUGUST 19. 

The influences which brought Paul to speak of death 
as a shorter way to Christ than living till He came, which 
led John to treat the eternal life of heaven as now and here, 
would have alienated the Christian mind from the mythol- 
ogy of its infancy, and lifted it to a higher experience. 
Time would have dissipated the scheme of the Parousia 
(Second Advent), the Messianic (Jewish) version of the 
kingdom of God. Those opposite conceptions would not 
have been tied together as functions of the same religion. 
But the church committed itself to them. Hence, a hope- 
less contention. James Martineau, born Ap. 21, 1805. 



AUGUST 20. 

Youth is the only time 
To think and to decide on a great course; 
Manhood with action follows ; but 'tis dreary 
To have to alter our whole life in age — 
The time past, the strength gone. 

Robert Browning. 



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AUGUST 2i. 

We were neither enamored of frills and furbelows of a 
decorative Christianity, making small appeal to the judg- 
ment or conscience, but trying to allure men by embroid- 
ered robes and vested choirs; nor reverential towards the 
titular bishops, chiefly distinguished by aprons, leggings, 
and uncommon hats. At the same time, we were anxious 
to have the church forms in our communion made more 
social and comely, to bring into them more responsive ele- 
ments, to add to them a dignity and rhymth they often 
lacked, to have the churches made attractive to young and 
old of all classes, to put the influence of the Gospel into 
all social relations, and make it more controlling in the life 
of communities. 

Richard Salter Storrs, born Aug. 21, 1821. 



AUGUST 22. 

Therein stands the office of a king, 
His honor, virtue, merit, and chief praise, 
That for the public all this weight he bears. 
But to guide nations in the way of truth 
By saving doctrine, and from error lead 
To know, and, knowing, worship God aright, 
Is yet more kingly. Milton. ' 



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AUGUST 23. 

In a stormy and divided age — stormy with the storms 
of three revolutions, divided with the divisions of a hundred 
sects — Baxter advocated unity and comprehension. Many 
other thoughts abounded in that teeming brain, but they 
are secondary. This was primary and ever-recurring. In 
the proclamation of this message he stands pre-eminent: 
Zeal for the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace and in 
righteousness of life was the fundamental dogma of his the- 
ology. Sin and moral evil were in his judgment the only 
grounds of division in Christendom; holiness and moral 
goodness the only grounds of union here or hereafter. 

A. P. Stanley. 



AUGUST 24. 

I am a member of a small but somewhat remarkable 
sect — a religious body which has a remarkable origin, and 
in its early days at least a somewhat remarkable history. 
It is of all religious sects the one that has taught the equal- 
ity and equal rights of man, and I venture to say it is re- 
markable for another thing; that within its borders and in 
its services personal ambition is practically unknown. 

John Bright, born Aug. 24, 181 1. 



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AUGUST 25. 

I consider the Gospel a finished revelation of God to 
man, never to be altered, sophisticated, or modified; as 
made for our vigilant conservation, our personal conform- 
ity, our obedience, and so for our salvation. I have aimed 
to defend it against all modifiers, corrupters, counterfeiters. 
To refute error, and reject all substitutes for truth, is my 
necessary duty. My preaching has been marked and some- 
times censured for my uncompromising and all-pervading 
Protestantism. Samuel Hanson Cox. 

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AUGUST 26 

Jesus described his life, crowned by his death, as the 
imperishable service by which in all ages men would be 
cleansed from sin, and brought to God. He thus put him- 
self above all others, although they would be his brethren, 
and claimed unique and permanent importance as Re- 
deemer and Judge. This he secured by the impression of 
his life, and the interpretation of his death as 'a victory, the 
passing over to his glory aw r akening the conviction in his 
followers that he lives as Lord and Judge of all. The dis- 
tinction of good and evil — for God or against God — Jesus 
makes the life-question for every man. 

Adolph Harnack. 



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AUGUST 27. 

When at last the solemn hour shall come, 

And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, 

I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, 

Will rising wonders sing: I cannot go 

Where Universal Love smiles not around, 

Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; 

From seeming evil still educing good, 

And better thence again, and better still, 

In infiinite progression. But I lose 

Myself in Him, in light ineffable: 

Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise! 

James Thomson, died Aug. 27, 1748, aged 48. 



AUGUST 28. 

Truth, wherever found, is the property of Christ's 
Church. Augustine, died Aug. 28, 430, aged 76. 



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AUGUST 29. 

Truth scarce ever carried it by vote at its first appear- 
ance: new opinions are suspected and opposed without 
other reason, but because they are not already common. 
But truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly 
brought out of the mine; though not vet current by the 
public stamp, it may be as old as nature, and not the less 
genuine. John Locke, born Aug. 29, 1637. 

True Christian consistency implies progress in knowl- 
edge and holiness, and such changes as are demanded by 
increasing light. Charles G. Finney, born Aug. 29, 1792. 



AUGUST 30. 

The influence of names is in exact proportion to the 
want of knowledge. William Paley, born Aug. 30, 1743. 



AUGUST 31. 

He that is down needs fear no fall; 

He that is low, no pride; 
He that is humble ever shall 

Have God to be his guide. 

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SEPTEMBER i. 

To enforce the sense of duty; to strengthen the will; 
to kindle the flame of religious affection; to turn the 
thoughts to whatever is pure, honest, lovely and of good 
report; to make Sunday last through the week; to bring 
consolation to sorrow; to organize charity; to stimulate 
Christian activity; to summon youth to holy living and 
brave dying; to drive clouds of darkness from the ways of 
men and from the wayside; to bring the kingdom of God 
into the world; — these are the functions of the Christian 
priesthood. 

George Frisbie Hoar, born Aug. 29, 1826. 



SEPTEMBER 2. 

Patience hath a countenance serene, a forehead 
smooth, with no wrinkle of grief or anger, eyes cast down in 
humility, not in melancholy. Her mouth beareth the seal 
of honorable silence. Her clothing about her bosom is 
white, and closely fitted to the body, neither puffed out nor 
ruffled. She sitteth on the throne of the gentle Spirit, who 
is not in the whirlwind, nor in the black cloud, but in the 
still, small voice, such as Elijah heard at the third time. 
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SEPTEMBER 3. 

John Howard (born Sept. 2, 1726, died Jan. 20, 1790) 
visited all Europe to dive into the depths of dungeons, to 
plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the man- 
sions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions 
of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the for- 
gotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and 
to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all coun- 
tries. Edmund Burke. 

The want and injustice of the present social state are 
not necessary. Taking men in the aggregate, their condi- 
tion is as they make it. Economic law and moral law are 
essentially one. Henry George, born Sept. 2, 1830. 



SEPTEMBER 4. 

To be catholic, and remain a Protestant, is the real 
thing for mankind. 

Louis A. Thiers, died Sept. 3, 1877, aged 80. 

For my own person I never touched a penny which I 
had not earned by my own honest work, nor ever shall. 

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SEPTEMBER 5. 

I seek to imitate the modern Socrates. At five and 
twenty, he (Benjamin Franklin) formed the design of be- 
coming perfectly wise. I dared to undertake the same 
thing, though not twenty. 

Humanity is the aggregate of all human beings, past, 
present, future. Solidarity and continuity are essential at- 
tributes of 'The Religion of Humanity." The dead live 
again. In some the soul of Plato or of Jesus is risen. 

Auguste Comte, died Sept. 5, 1857, aged 59. 



SEPTEMBER 6. 

The highest humanity is the highest Christianity. 
Parts of the Divine Nature are beyond our reach. It is im- 
possible to be like God in His infinity, omniscience; but 
it is possible to be like Christ in sincerity, courage, faith, 
purity, love. And if we make the struggle, the Christian 
life may be one long epiphany, a continually brightening 
manifestation of God in our souls. The earthly manifesta- 
tion of the Fatherhood of God is the brotherhood of men. 
The picture the prophet of the future presents (Isaiah xi. 
13) is not of a world in which Judah and Ephraim cease to 
exist, but of a world in which Ephraim will no longer vex 
Judah, nor Judah envy Ephraim. It supposes not the ex- 
tinction of varieties among Christians, but their co-opera- 
tion. Edwin Hatch, born Sept. 4, 1835. 



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SEPTEMBER 7. 

The Twentieth century begins with a new conception 
of Catholicity. Uniformity of doctrine is impossible, the 
solitary prevalence of one denomination undesirable. A 
man who knows only his fellow-religionists is like one who 
studies himself in a mirror. The Sixteenth century was the 
era of reformation; the Seventeenth of separation; the 
Eighteenth of toleration; the Nineteenth of religious equal- 
ity. Some of us believe and desire that the Twentieth may 
be the century of reunion. Alexander Mackennal. 



SEPTEMBER 8. 

Next to the fugitives Moses led out of Egypt, the 
little shipload of outcasts who landed at Plymouth are des- 
tined to influence the history of the world. The spiritual 
thirst of mankind has for ages been quenched at Hebrew 
fountains, but the embodiment in human institutions of 
truths uttered by the Son of Man was to be mainly the 
work of Puritan thought and devotion. There can be no 
nobler aim or more practical wisdom than to make the law 
of man a living counterpart of the law of God. 

J. R. Lowell. 



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SEPTEMBER 9. 

One of our Lord's chief difficulties was to keep clear 
of political excitements, to avoid rousing those turbulent 
expectations of a change in their outward condition which 
the multitude associated with the Messiah. An attempt of 
the kind would have brought his work to ruin. A chief 
reason why Luther's work abode, and Savonarola's came 
to nothing was that Luther's was a Church Reformation, 
and nothing else, leaving any other to follow, as in time it 
must; while that of the Italian friar would fain have been 
a Reformation of Church and State in one. 

R. C. Trench. 



SEPTEMBER 10. 

Do not charge most innocent Nature, 
As if she would her children should be riotous 
With her abundance; she, good cateress, 
Means her provision only to the good, 
That live according to her sober laws, 
And holy dictates of spare Temperance: 
If every just man, that now pines with want, 
Had but a moderate and beseeming share 
Of that which lewdly-pampered Luxury 
Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, 
Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed 
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SEPTEMBER n. 

Happiest of men, who far from public rage, 
Deep in the vale, with a choice few retired, 
Drinks the pure pleasures of the Rural Life. 
Rich in content, in Nature's bounty rich; 
Here too dwells simple truth; plain innocence; 
Unsullied beauty; sound unbroken youth, 
Patient of labor, with a little pleased; 
Health ever blooming; unambitious toil; 
Calm contemplation, and poetic ease. 

James Thomson, born Sept. n, 1700. 



SEPTEMBER 12. 

The object of study is the enlargement and improve- 
ment of the mind, not the mere acquisition of knowledge. 
If we were to attend to our characters in youth, we might 
cure many faults and weaknesses which are gradually be- 
coming a part of us. We want to strengthen the better 
elements in ourselves, and starve and subdue the worse; we 
want to get rid of the secret faults which are known to our- 
selves only, and live in innocence and the fear of God. Let 
us keep our minds above our bodies. The errors of young 
men only become irretrievable when they persist in them. 

B. Jowett. 



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SEPTEMBER 13. 

O soul, be stedfast in thy lot, 
In marble shade or rustic cot ; 
Permit the wealth the fates bestow, 
But in its void no pining know. 
Though fortunes fail, and prospects frown, 
May duty keep her matchless crown, 
Nor desolation bid depart 
The glories of a guileless heart. 

Julia Ward Howe. 

SEPTEMBER 14. 

Dante shows what sin is (Inferno), the way of purifi- 
cation (Purgatorio), the blessedness of the righteous (Par- 
adiso). Virgil shows to Dante the deep abyss, those who 
have sinned most, deepest down, farthest from God. Lu- 
cifer at the bottom of the pit, torturing his followers, is a 
truer representative of sin than Milton's Satan or Goethe's 
Mephistopheles. Milton gives strength and daring to Sa- 
tan. Goethe makes Mephistopheles a pleasant companion. 
Dante shows Lucifer foul and loathsome in self-indulgence. 
Man is punished by his sins, to live in them, in the foul 
character they have generated. Sin demonizes, but does 
not annihilate. 

Of Monarchy, the Heavens, the Fire, the Pit, 
I sang as far as to the Fates seemed fit; 
But now my soul hath flown to nobler wars, 
And gone to seek its Maker mid the stars. 

Dante, died Sept. 14, 1321. 
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SEPTEMBER 15. 

You may not join the zealots with Ruskin, who called 
Dante "the central man of all the world"; you may, how- 
ever, agree with Lowell that among men of genius, if 
Shakespeare was the most comprehensive intellect, "Dante 
was the highest spiritual nature." 

James Davie Butler, born March 15, 181 5. 



SEPTEMBER 16. ( ' 

(The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, hav- 
ing on board the Pilgrim Fathers of New England, Sept. 
16, 1620.) 

She is still sailing, her sails set for eternity, destined 
to illumined seas, and more and more to enter into the 
universal voice and vision of human history. y. M. Post, 

The Pilgrims were the servants of posterity, the bene- 
factors of succeeding generations. In history many pages 
are devoted to the heroes who have besieged cities, sub- 
dued provinces, or overthrown empires. A colony is a bet- 
ter offering than a victory. The citizens of the United 
States should cherish the memory of those who founded a 
state on the basis of democratic liberty, who, as they first 
trod the soil of the new world, scattered the seminal prin- 
ciples of republican freedom and national independence. 

George Bancroft. 



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SEPTEMBER 17. 

The Constitution (agreed upon in Convention, Sept. 
17, 1787) is the great result of the American Revolution, 
the giant stride in the improvement of the condition of the 
human race. Of the signers of the Constitution, under 
which we live with enjoyments never before allotted to 
man, the last survivor was James Madison. 

John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848. 

American civilization is the furthest point yet reached 
by any age or nation. 

Orestes A. Brozvnson, born Sept. 16, 1803. 

The presence of highly cultivated and vigorous minds 
is the most powerful aid to popular education. A class of 
strong thinkers is the palladium of democracy. They are 
the natural enemies of ostentation and aggressive wealth. 
The vastest aggregate of average intelligences cannot sup- 
ply their place. Francis Parkman, born Sept, 16, 1823. 



SEPTEMBER 18. 

I call upon you, my countrymen; Resist every project 
of disunion, every attempt to smother your public schools, 
or extinguish your system of public instruction. 

Joseph Story, bom Sept. 18, 1779. 



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SEPTEMBER 19. 

New France was the offspring of a triumphant gov- 
ernment, a gigantic ambition of Feudalism, Monarchy, and 
Rome, to grasp a continent; New England, the offspring 
of an oppressed and fugitive people: one, an unflinching 
champion of the Roman Catholic reaction; the other, a 
vanguard of the Reform. Each followed its natural laws of 
growth; each. came to its natural result. Vitalized by the 
principles of its founders, the Puritan commonwealth grew 
apace. New England was the land of progress; a prize 
within every man's reach; assiduity in the pursuit of gain 
promoted to the rank of a duty; thrift and godliness linked 
in wedlock. 

Turn to New France, all is reversed; her story a story 
of war with savage tribes and with heresy and England. It 
was a vain attempt. Borne down by numbers from with- 
out, wasted by corruption from within, New France fell. 

F. Parkman. 



SEPTEMBER 20. 

I must keep on good terms with myself. I could not 
respect myself if I were to remain silent while wrong is 
being done. I cannot yield to what is not right. 

The report of our Free Public Library for the year 
1902 shows results which are exceedingly gratifying to us. 
We look forward confidently to another year of even 
greater results, if earnest effort can achieve them. 

Philip M. Crapo, died Sept. 20, 1903, aged 59. 



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SEPTEMBER 21. 

I had two noble places of study; one, a public library; 
the other, yonder beach (Newport, Rhode Island), my daily 
resort, dear to me in the sunshine, still more attractive in 
the storm. No spot on earth has helped to form me so 
much as that beach. There I lifted up my voice in praise 
amidst the tempest. There, softened by beauty, I poured 
out my thanksgiving and contrite confession. There in 
sympathy with the power around me, I became conscious 
of power within. There struggling thoughts and emotions 
broke forth, as if moved to utterance by nature's eloquence 
of winds and waves. There began a happiness surpassing 
all worldly pleasures, all gifts of fortune, the happiness of 
communing with the works of God. I thank God that this 
beautiful island was the place of my birth. 

William Ellery Channing, 1780- 1842. 



SEPTEMBER 22. 

Go forth under the open sky, and list 
To Nature's teachings, while from all around, 
Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air, 
Comes a still voice. W. C. Bryant. 



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SEPTEMBER 23. 

If we would learn perfect goodness, if we wish to warm 
our hearts with the love of it, we can adopt no method so 
effectual as the study, the contemplation, of the life of 
Jesus. He is the perfect man, a miracle more striking than 
the most stupendous work of a physical nature, a character 
such as the Evangelists could never have feigned, such as 
imposters w r ould never have imagined. Never do I feel 
how lovely is virtue, never do I so earnestly desire to sub- 
due my passions, and put on humility and universal love, 
as when I behold the glory of God in the face, in the ac- 
tions, in the words, of Jesus Christ. W. E. Charming. 



SEPTEMBER 24. 

The Psalms express the sacred duty of being happy. 
"A joyful and pleasant thing" it is to be thankful. This is 
the meaning of the word "Psalm." The Hebrew word 
which is their pith and marrow is "Hallelujah/' Be happy, 
cheerful, thankful as we can, we cannot go beyond the 
Psalms. They laugh, they shout, they cry for joy. A wild 
exhilaration rings through them. They see God's good- 
ness everywhere. The fury of the thunderstorm, the roar- 
ing of the sea are full of magnificence and delight. Affec- 
tion for birds, beasts, plants, sun, moon, stars, is like that 
Francis of Assisi claimed for these fellow-creatures, as his 
brothers and sisters. A. P. Stanley. 



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SEPTEMBER 25. 

Bring flowers to the shrine where we kneel in prayer; 

They are nature's offering, their place is there; 

They speak of hope to the fainting heart, 

With a voice of promise they come and part, 

They sleep in dust through the wintry hours, 

They break forth in glory — bring flowers, bright flowers. 



There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful 

eyes 
Can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly 

guise, 
And feel that by the lights and clouds through which our 

pathway lies, 
By the beauty and the grief alike, we are training for the 

skies. Felicia Remans, born Sept. 25, 1793. 



SEPTEMBER 26. 

The Religion of the Spirit is the true obedience and 
consecration of the soul to the law of goodness, the religion 
of personal faith and of freedom. Christ created a new state 
of soul. His revelation is not superimposed upon the con- 
science, like that of Moses ; it is realized in the conscience 
itself, raised to a higher point of clear sight and energy. 
The essential characteristic of the Gospel is that it has 
raised heart piety to be the very essence of religion. 

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SEPTEMBER 27. 

Collegiate gymnasiums were established to counteract 
physical infirmities engendered by sedentary lives. Their 
exercises were deemed conductive to the highest intellec- 
tual culture. But this opinion has proved unwarranted un- 
less where athletics have been practiced moderately, no 
more than was needful for health and recreation. The best 
gymnasts are rarely the best scholars. Such must be the 
case so long as no man can serve two masters. Hercules 
was not Apollo, and could not walk in his circle. The 
athlete has his sphere, but the more his training reaches its 
acme, the more it incapacitates him for attaining excellence 
in intellectual achievement. The truth of this assertion is 
evinced by a fact which should be kept before the people: 
no Olympian victor was ever victorious in any department 
of Greek literature; none became famous as poet, philoso- 
pher, orator, historian, artist, or even general. 

James D. Butler. 



SEPTEMBER 28. 

He who would be a great soul in future, must be a 
great soul now. R, W. Emerson. 



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SEPTEMBER 29. 

We cannot conceive of a more beautiful image than 
that of the genius of agriculture, distinguished by the im- 
plements of his art, imbrowned with labor, glowing with 
health, crowned with a garland of foliage, flowers, and 
fruit, lying stretched at his ease on the brow of a gentle 
swelling hill, contemplating with pleasure the happy effects 
of his own industry. Oliver Goldsmith. 



SEPTEMBER 30. 

Many are asking how war can be stayed. The na- 
tions have been told to look to arbitration. Arbitration is 
a method of law, and as in the midst of war the laws are 
silent, it is also true that in the midst of the laws arms are 
silent. One great cause of war is that nations will not be- 
lieve they are wrong when they are judges in their own 
case. The hope of peace through arbitration is that na- 
tions may believe they have made a mistake if impartial 
authorities tell them so. There have been some interna- 
tional arbitrations; in none have both sides been satisfied. 
Nevertheless, the awards have been accepted, wars have 
been prevented. The habit of appealing to law takes away 
the desire to resort to arms. By the acceptance of arbitra- 
tion, we shall not be released from the duty of overcoming 
international evil with international good. 

A. Macke final 



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OCTOBER i. 

Jesus distinguished himself from Moses and the 
prophets; not a disciple of Moses, he corrected that law- 
giver; not a prophet, but Master and Lord. He did not 
impose asceticism, nor live as an ascetic. He enjoined 
simplicity, kept his disciples from fanaticism, attributed no 
value to ceremonies as such, ignored the whole sacrificial 
system, taught the prayer which demands a collected mind 
and elevation of spirit. Christianity is not a positive re- 
ligion alongside of others, but religion itself Christ en- 
ters into our life as God's spirit, God's word. 

A. Harnack. 



OCTOBER 2. 

Our present low civilization, the central idea of which 
is wealth, cannot last for ever; the mass of men are not 
doomed hopelessly to the degradation in which they are 
sunk. A new comprehension of the end and dignity of a 
human being is to remodel social institutions and manners. 
In Christianity and in the powers of human nature we have 
promise of something holier and happier than now exists. 
We have been made drunk with the spirit of rapid accum- 
ulation, and maddened with prospects of boundless wealth. 
Nothing but Christianity, which is in direct hostility to the 
present spirit of accumulation, can heal the woes of society. 
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OCTOBER 3. 

In 1784, America was thoroughly a Protestant coun- 
try. The whole number of Catholics in the Thirteen 
States, as reported by themselves, was 32,500: in New Eng- 
land 600, New York and New Jersey 1700, Pennsylvania 
and Delaware 7700, Maryland 12,000 freemen, 8,000 slaves. 
Southern States 2500; in Kaskaskia and other places pure- 
ly French 12,000. The Roman Catholic clergy in the col- 
onies had been superintended by a person in London ; dur- 
ing the war they were directed by Jesuits who favored the 
British. Barbe Marbois wrote, Philadelphia, Aug. 15, 
1784: 'The Catholics, always directed by the Jesuits in 
this country, have been ill-disposed to the Revolution. " 
George Bancroft, born Oct. 3, 1800. 



OCTOBER 4. 

Conscience is a personal guide. I use it because I 
must use myself. I am as little able to think by any mind 
but my own as to breathe with another's lungs. Con- 
science is nearer to me than any other means of knowledge. 
Carried about by every individual in his breast, it commu- 
nicates to each the knowledge most important to him, in- 
dependently of books. Conscience teaches not only that 
God is, but what He is. It gives a rule of right and wrong. 
Its most prominent teaching about Him whom by means 
of it we perceive, is that He is our Judge. The special at- 
tribute under w T hich it brings Him before us is justice. 

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OCTOBER s. 

Resolved, To do whatever I think to be my duty, and 
most for the good and advantage of mankind in general, 
whatever difficulties I meet with, how many soever, how 
great soever (1723). 

It is probable that the most glorious renovation of the 
world will originate from the new continent, and the sun 
of the new heavens rise in the west (i739)* 

Jonathan Edwards, born Oct. 5, 1703. 



OCTOBER 6. 

Old age hath yet his honor and his toil; 
Death closes all: but something ere the end, 
Some work of noble note, may yet be done. 



Twilight and evening bell, 

And after that the dark! 
And may there be no moaning of farewell, 

When I embark; 

For though from out our bourne of Time and Place 

The flood may bear me far, 
I hope to see my Pilot face to face 

When I have crost the bar. 

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OCTOBER 7. 

O soul, be content to pass into shade, 

And live in the light thy actions have made. 



My bark is wafted to the strand 

By breath divine; 
And on the helm there rests a hand 

Other than mine: 
One who has known in storms to sail 

I have on board; 
Above the raging of the gale 

I hear my Lord. 

Henry Alford, born Oct. 7, 1810. 



OCTOBER 8. 

For the heaven we seek, we need not fly away to some 
unknown region. The elements of that glorious future 
are present here in our very hands. The divine and eternal 
are ever near. God does not dwell in some far-off point of 
space. He is not anywhere more present than on this 
earth. The only thing needed to bring the beatific vision 
of his presence is quickening of soul. Let pure light fill 
the mind, and pure love the heart, and heaven would be 
here the common air, and skies become resplendent with 
divine glory. The eternal world is waiting to break 
through the veil of earthly things, and suffuse with inef- 
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OCTOBER 9. 

Be the change which death brings what it may, he who 
has spent his life in trying to make this world better, can 
never be unprepared for another. The rending of the veil 
which hides the secrets of the unseen world, the summons 
into regions unknown, need awaken no perturbation or 
dismay, for you cannot in God's universe go where love 
and truth and self-devotion are things of naught, or where 
a soul filled with faith in goodness, and identifying its own 
happiness with goodness, shall find itself forsaken. 

John Caird. 
OCTOBER 10. 

I have been long engaged studying modern civiliza- 
tion. In doing so, I have travelled largely on the North 
American continent, and am now (1871) observing Asiatic 
countries. I do not undervalue missionary labors, but the 
Christian religion, for its acceptance, involves some intel- 
lectual and social advancement which can only be effected 
through international commerce. I look, therefore, chiefly 
to commerce for the regeneration of China. It is essential 
that the Western nations practise equal justice toward 
China. True commerce involves reciprocity, not exclusive 
gain on either side, and it flourishes in proportion to the 
good faith and equality with which it is conducted. * * * 
In my wanderings I have looked the whole human family 
in the face, and taken by the hand and conversed with my 
fellow man in his lowest degradation and in his highest 
civilization. I have found no nation so distant, no race so 
iow, that the character of an American citizen did not 
secure to me safety, respect, consideration, affection. 

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OCTOBER n. 

War concentrates all the varieties of human misery. 
It is essentially barbarous, and will be looked upon by 
more enlightened and Christian ages with the horror with 
which we recall the atrocities of savage tribes. As a peo- 
ple, we are blind to the crimes and miseries of war. The 
merciful spirit of our religion is little understood. The law 
of love preached from the cross and written in the blood of 
the Saviour is trampled on. The dignity of man, which 
consists in cherishing justice and philanthropy towards 
every human being, is counted folly in comparison with 
vindictiveness and self-aggrandizement. Shall not the mild 
and holy spirit of Christianity find a voice to rebuke and 
awe the wickedness which precipitates nations into war? 
Prince of Peace ! Speak in thine own voice, and redeem 
the world for which thou hast died, from lawless and cruel 
passion, from rapine and murder, from darkness and hell. 

W. E. Charming. 

OCTOBER 12. 

Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, 
Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, 

Given to redeem the human mind from error, 
There were no need of arsenals and forts: 

The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! 

And every nation, that should lift again 
Its hand against a brother, on its forehead 

Would wear forevermore the brand of Cain! 

H. W. Longfellow. 



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OCTOBER 13. 

A good man ought not to calculate the chance of liv- 
ing or dying, but only consider whether he is doing right 
or wrong, acting the part of a good or of a bad man. 
Wherever a man's place is, whether that which he has 
chosen, or that in which he has been placed, there he ought 
to remain in the hour of danger. Fear of death is a pre- 
tense of wisdom, not real wisdom, appearing to know the un- 
known; since no one knows whether death which they fear 
to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good; but 
I know injustice and disobedience is evil and dishonorable, 
and I will never fear a possible good rather than a certain 
evil. Socrates, died 399 B. C, aged 70. 

OCTOBER 14. 

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall not 
cease teaching philosophy, and exhorting any one I meet 
and saying, O my friend, citizen of the great and wise city 
of Athens, why do you care so much about laying up 
money, and so little about wisdom? I care not a straw for 
death; my only fear was of doing an unrighteous thing. 1 
am old and move slowly; my accusers are keen and quick. 
Those who think death an evil are in error. It is a state of 
nothingness and unconsciousness, or a change and migra- 
tion to another world. If there is no consciousness, but a 
sleep undisturbed by dreams, death will be a gain. But if 
death be a journey to another place, where all the dead are, 
what good can be greater? What would not a man give 
it he might converse with Orpheus and Homer? Above 
all, I shall be able to continue my search for knowledge. 

Socrates. 



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OCTOBER 15. 

Be not afraid of death, as of hobgoblins, said Socrates, 
but charm him. And when Cebes asked, "Where can we 
find a charmer, now you are to leave us?" Socrates an- 
swered, "Search many nations; spare no money or toil; 
there is nothing you can spend money for more reasonably 
than in seeking a charmer." 
Plato, died 348 B. C, aged 81. 

"Where is that charmer which thou bid'st us seek? 
On what far shores may his sweet voice be heard?" 
So spake the youth of Athens, weeping round, 
When Socrates lay down to die. 

But years passed on; and lo! the charmer came, — 
Like the Athenian Sage, rejected, scorned, 
He told his faithful few his doom drew nigh: 
"Let not your heart be troubled," then He said: 

"My Father's house hath mansions large and fair; 
I go before you to prepare your place ; 

I will return to take you safely there." 

And since that hour the awful foe is charmed, 
And life and death are glorified and fair. 

Whither He went we know; the way we know, 
And with firm step press on to meet him there. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

OCTOBER 16. 

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; 
for we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in 
England, as I trust shall never be put out. Hugh Latimer. 

Burnt at the stake, Oct. 16, 1555, in Oxford, aged 65. 

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OCTOBER 17. 

Jesus called himself Son of God in language which 
offended the Jews; but in prospect of death he claimed the 
same high relation. What a union of lowliness and maj- 
esty! The character he assumes of Lord and Sovereign of 
the whole human race, appointed by God to recover the 
world to piety, and give eternal life to his obedient disci- 
ples, is more august and sublime than ever before entered 
human imagination. His great desire and prayer was that 
the men to whom his religion was to be confided, should 
fulfil their trust, and by their lives and preaching fill the 
world with his truth. Future ages crowded on his mind. 
Though insulted, dishonored, he thought only of enlight- 
ening and saving mankind. w. E. Channing. 

OCTOBER 18. f ^r • 1 

"Not as I will"; the sound grows sweet 
Each time my lips the words repeat. 
"Not as I will," because the One 
Who loved us first and best has gone 
Before us on the road, and still 
Must all His love fulfil. 
After the ages have all countless grown, 

Our souls will poise and launch with eager wing, 
Forgetting blessedness already known, 

In sweet impatience for God's next good thing. 

Helen Hunt Jackson, 
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OCTOBER 19. 

I consider the discovery of America as the opening of 
a grand design in Providence for the emancipation of man- 
kind all over the earth. The Union is our rock of safety, 
as well as the pledge of our grandeur. A prospect into 
futurity in America is like contemplating the heavens 
through the telescope; objects stupendous in magnitude 
and motion strike us from all quarters, and fill us with 
amazement. John Adams, born Oct. 19, 1735. 



It is a delicious moment, nestled in bed, feeling that 
you shall drop to sleep, the limbs tired enough to render 
one position delightful. A gentle failure of perception 
creeps over you; consciousness disengages itself with slow 
and hushing degrees, like a mother disengaging her hand 
from that of a sleeping child; the mind seems to have 
a balmy lid closing over it, like the eye — it is closed — the 
mysterious spirit has gone to take its airy round. 

Leigh Hunt, born Oct. 19, 1784. 

OCTOBER 20. 

With the blessing of God, I will war and war continu- 
ally against the abandonment to slavery of a single foot of 
soil now consecrated to Freedom. April 8, 1854. 

When I took an oath that "in all things appertaining 
to the trial of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson 1 
would render impartial justice according to the Constitu- 
tion and the laws," I became a judge, acting on my own 
responsibility and accountable only to my conscience and 
my Maker; and no power could force me to decide in such 
a case, contrary to my convictions, to suit the require- 
ments of a party, whether that party were composed of my 
friends or my enemies. May 26, 1868. 

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OCTOBER 21. 

Where God is, there is his foster-child, Patience. 

Tertallion. 

O'er wayward childhood wouldst thou hold firm rule, 
And sun thee in the light of happy faces; 
Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, 
And in thine own heart let them first keep school. 
Yet haply there will come a weary day, 
When Love and Hope beneath the load give way, 
Then with a statue's smile, a statue's strength. 
Stands the mute sister, Patience, nothing loth, 
And both supporting does the work of both. 



The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, 

Slaves by their own compulsion. In mad game 
They burst their manacles and wear the name 

Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain. 
For freedom can with those alone abide, 
Who wear the golden chain, with honest pride, 
Of love and duty, at their own fire-side. 

Samuel T. Coleridge, born Oct. 21, 1772. 

OCTOBER 22. 

I expect neither profit nor fame by my writings ; I con- 
sider myself amply repaid without either. Poetry has been 
to me its own exceeding great reward; it has soothed my 
afflictions, multiplied and refined my enjoyments, endeared 
solitude, and given me the habit of wishing to discover the 
Good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. 

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OCTOBER 23. 

As Evangelical Christians, we are not bound to Lu- 
ther or Calvin, but to Jesus Christ. Nor de we depart from 
the testimony of history when we rediscover in Luther's 
conception of faith the moving spirit of Protestantism. 
Professor SchafFs proposal, 1889, for a brief, simple creed, 
which shall express only the cardinal doctrines of faith and 
duty, full of the marrow of the gospel of God's infinite love 
in Christ for the salvation of the world, is to be warmly 
commended. We shall perhaps follow some day', if the 
Evangelicals in America go before with the torch. 

A. Harnack. 

OCTOBER 24. 

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last 
time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the 
broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious 
Union, on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a 
land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in frater- 
nal blood. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather 
behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known 
and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, 
its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not 
a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured — 
bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as 
What is all this worth? nor those other words of delusion 
and folly, Liberty first, and Union afterwards — but every- 
where, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing 
on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over 
the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that 
other sentiment, dear to every true American heart — Lib- 
erty and Union, novo and forever, one and inseparable, 

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OCTOBER 25. 

William III. was from conviction a Latitudinarian. 
He owned episcopacy a lawful and convenient form of 
church government; but spoke with sharpness and scorn of 
the bigotry of those who thought episcopal ordination 
essential to Christian society. He had no scruples about 
the vestments and gestures prescribed by the Book of 
Common Prayer. But he avowed that he should like the 
rites of the Church of England better if they reminded him 
less of the rites of the Church of Rome. 

T. B. Macaulay, born Oct. 25, 1800. 

OCTOBER 26. 

I can say what no other man in the Kingdom can say, 
I have been returned four times to Parliament in cities of 
more than 140,000 inhabitants, and all these elections have 
not cost me £500. I never did and never will take any 
steps for obtaining praise or deprecating censure. I never 
stooped to the part of a demagogue, and never feared to 
confront an unreasonable clamor. 

Then none was for a party; 

Then all were for the State; 
Then the great men helped the poor, 

And the poor man loved the great. 
Then land was fairly portioned; 

The spoils were fairly sold; 
The Romans were like brothers 

In the brave days of old. 

T. B. Macaulay. 



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OCTOBER 27. 

Since the Seventeenth century forgiveness of sins in 
the Catholic church has become to a large extent a refined 
art; one learns how to receive confession and give absolu- 
tion, as one learns the art of speculation in the exchange. 
The Jesuits are the active squad of the church. Except 
some German scholars, the Catholic authors who are not 
Jesuits are few. By Probalism the Jesuits transferred 
deadly into venial sins. They compounded conscience, and 
wiped out sin with sin. Their ethical hand-books are in 
part abomination and filth. Shocking things are dealt with 
in a brazen way, showing how reckless transgressors may 
still obtain the peace of the church. In France, the effort 
to emancipate the church from a subtle and lax morality, 
under one of the great orators and rhetoricians of the ages, 
Pascal, disappeared in the sand. A. Harnack. 

OCTOBER 28. 

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, 
like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the 
morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the seas, duty 
performed or duty violated, is still with us, for our happi- 
ness, or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, 
in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with 
us. We cannot escape from their power, nor fly from their 
presence. They are with us in this life, will be with us at 
its close; and in that scene of inconceivable solemnity 
which lies further onward — we shall still find ourselves 
surrounded by the consciousness of duty, to pain us, wher- 
ever it has been violated, and to comfort us so far as God 
may have given us grace to perform it. Daniel Webster. 



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OCTOBER 29. 

In my judgment, there is no more commanding duty 
than attendance at church on Sunday. The public worship 
of God is to be continued or maintained only by attend- 
ance upon it. George F. Hoar. 

OCTOBER 30. 

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would 

By her own clear light, though sun and moon 

Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 

Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 

Where, with her best nurse Contemplation, 

She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings. 

He that has light within his own clear breast, 

May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day; 

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, 

Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; 

Himself is his own dungeon. John Milton. 

OCTOBER 31. 

When our Lord Jesus Christ says, "Repent," he 
means that the whole life of his faithful servants upon earth 
should be a constant and continual repentance. To hope 
to be saved by indulgences is to hope in vanity and lies. 

Martin Luther. 

Theses affixed to the door of the Church at Wittem- 
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NOVEMBER i. 

The every-day cares and duties men call drudgery, are 
the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving 
the pendulum a true vibration, the hands a regular motion. 

H. W. Longfellozv. 

Duty rises with us in the morning, and goes to rest 
with us at night. It is the shadow which cleaves to us go 
where we will, and leaves us only when we leave the light 
of life. W. E. Gladstone. 

The reward of one duty done is the power to do an- 
other. George Eliot. 

NOVEMBER 2. 

It was a disaster of the Reformation, that the State in 
almost every country seized that power over the church 
which had been wrested from the Roman pontiff. A state 
church, if it is a church at all in any Christian sense, is a 
church in fetters. The fetters may be gilded; but gilded 
and gorgeous they are fetters still. Its unity is uniformity, 
coerced, not spontaneous; for so far as it is established and 
controlled by the civil power, it has to do only with things 
outward and palpable. The voluntary principle of perfect 
and absolute religious freedom, that gives to Caesar the 
things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are 
God's, thoroughly carried out, and every where estab- 
lished, is essential to the universal and complete manifes- 
taion of the living unity of Christ's disciples. 

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NOVEMBER 3. 

I cannot but lament the tendency, encouraged by 
some in the zealous prosecution of science, to turn atten- 
tion from the teachings of the Gospel, from the example of 
Christ's life, and the precepts he gave. To those teachings 
and that example the world owes its recovery from the 
abominations of heathenism. The men who in the pride of 
their invesitgaions into the secrets of the material world, 
turn a look of scorn upon the Christian system of belief, 
are not aware how much of the peace and order of society, 
of the happiness of their households and the purity of those 
dearest to them, are owing to that religion. The character 
of Christ is so attractive, that I cannot describe in lan- 
guage the admiration with which I regard it. Take away 
his life would seem to be blotting the sun out of the 
heavens. For my part, if I thought that scepticism were 
to gather strength and prevail and become dominant, I 
should despair of the fate of mankind in the years that are 
to come. w. C. Bryant, born Nov. 3, 1794. 



NOVEMBER 4. 

His youth w^as innocent; his riper age 

Marked with some act of goodness every day; 

And watched by eyes that loved him, calm, and sage, 
Faded his late declining years away. 

Cheerful he gave his being up, and went 

To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent. 

W . C. Bryant, 



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NOVEMBER 5. 

There was nothing that Luther more loved to say 
than that "church" meant people, saints, Christians. So 
speaking, he agreed with the Catholics of the early ages. 
As Justin counted all truth to be of Christ, as Clement 
found prophecy in Hellenic philosophy as well as in the 
Hebrew law, as Augustine believed that there had been a 
Christianity before Christ, so Luther held that wherever 
the holy soul is, whether under the Papacy or under the 
Turks, there is the church. A. M. Fairbairn. 

NOVEMBER 6. 

We are bound to commune with all who, loving the 
Lord supremely, love their neighbors as themselves. This 
is a land abounding with sects; in no other country are so 
many divisions in the church; hence it is wisdom to frater- 
nize with all the children of our common Father. The 
spirit of our national institutions is that of liberty and 
equality; no one body is allowed to* monopolize the favors 
of Providence, nor should any one urge exclusive claims 
to the treasures of grace We are bound by no creed, save 
that which every church sees fit to> make for itself. This is 
our distinction above the sects of the old world, that no 
council of Nice or Trent, no synod of Dort, no assembly 
at Westminster or Savoy, have any more authority over us 
that we deem it good to allow. This is American Chris- 
tianity. It is in sympathy with the broadness of our lakes, 
the length of our rivers, the freeness of our government, 
the genius of our social organization. A narrow-minded 
religionist is no true countryman of ours. 

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NOVEMBER 7. 

As no proof beside the light is necessary to show that 
the sun shines, so Jesus proves himself by self-evidence. 
His life and character are the ^sufficient attestation of his 
profession, when he says, "I am from above." Unfolding 
as a flower from the germ of a perfect youth, growing up 
to enter into great scenes and have part in great trials, 
harmonious in all with himself, he is a Lamb in innocence, 
a God in dignity. He advances the most extravagant 
pretensions without show of conceit or fault of modesty. 
He suffers, giving an example of gentleness and patience. 
He undertakes a plan, universal in extent, perpetual in 
time, to unite all nations in a kingdom of righteousness, 
laying his foundations in the hearts of the poor, as no 
teacher had ever done before. In his teachings he is per- 
fectly original, distinct from his age and from all ages; 
never warped by the expectation of his friends; always in 
a balance of truth, running to no extremes, clear of super- 
stition, and equally of liberalism; presenting high doc- 
trines in low and simple forms; establishing a pure, univer- 
sal morality, never before established; with intense devo- 
tion to truth, never anxious, perceptibly, for the success 
of his doctrine; finally, he grows more great, and wise, 
and sacred, the more he is known This is Jesus, the 
Christ, manifestly not of our world, some being who has 
burst into it, and is not of it. Call him, and say, "We be- 
lieve that thou earnest forth from God." 

Horace Bushnell. 

NOVEMBER 8. 

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, 
Live well; how long or short, permit to Heaven. 

John Milton. 
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NOVEMBER 9. 

Nature, the winds, 
And rolling waves, the sun's unwearied course, 
The elements and seasons, all declare 
For what the eternal Maker has ordained 
The powers of man: we feel within ourselves 
His energy divine: He tells the heart, 
He meant, He made us to behold and love 
What He beholds and loves, the general orb 
Of life and being; to be great like Him, 
Beneficent and active. Thus the men 
Whom natures works can charm, with God himself 
Hold converse, grow familiar, day by day, 
With His conceptions, act upon His plan, 
And form to His, the relish of their souls. 

Mark Akenside, born Nov. 9, 1721. 

NOVEMBER 10. 

It is an idle dream to suppose that all Christian com- 
munities through the world will be merged into a single 
visible organization. The sense of individuality which 
leads each community to shape its own forms is no less 
powerful than the instinct of association. But the sense of 
individuality is not incompatible with the recognition of 
brotherhood. 

It is no idle dream to conceive of the Christian com- 
munities each holding what it prizes as its own, and yet 
cooperating for the common good with its own officers, 
weapons, and in its own part of the field, fighting against 
the common foes of ignorance, selfishness, and sin. 

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NOVEMBER n. 

Having undertaken for the glory of) God, and ad- 
vancement of the Christian faith, and the honor of our 
king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the 
northern parts of Virginia, we by these presents solemnly 
and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, 
covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body 
politic, for our better ordering and preservation; and by 
virtue hereof, enact, constitute, and frame such just and 
equal laws, ordinances, and officers, from time to time, as 
may be thought most meet and convenient for the general 
good of the colony; unto which we promise all due sub- 
mission and obedience. In witness whereof, we have 
hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod, November 
ii, 1620. John Carver, 

And forty others, the "Pilgrim Fathers." 

NOVEMBER 12. 

I do not see the slightest promise of the organic unity 
of Christendom on the basis of episcopacy or upon any 
other basis. I do not see the slightest chance of the har- 
monizing of Christian doctrine throughout the world, that 
sight which no man has seen in any age. But I do see signs 
that, keeping their different thoughts concerning Christ 
and his teachings, men loyal to Him may be united in the 
only union which is valuable. In that union I find my- 
self truly one with Peter and Paul, with Origen, Athan- 
anins, and Augustine, with Luther, Zwingle, and Calvin, 
with St. Francis, Bishop Andrews, and Dr. Channing. No 
union which will not include all these ought to satisfy us, 
because no other will satisfy the last prayer of Jesus. 

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NOVEMBER 13. 

It is inherent in the divine order of society that the 
highest intellect among women, the best she has to offer, 
should be given to the home. Ellen Henrotin. 

When on my day of life the night is falling, 

And, in the wind from unsunned spaces blown, 
I hear far voices out of darkness calling 

My feet to paths unknown, 
Thou who hast made my home of life so* pleasant, 

Leave not its tenant when its walls decay; 
O Love divine, O Helper ever present, 

Be Thou my strength and stay! 

John G. Whittier, 1807-1892. 

NOVEMBER 14. 

The United States of America and the Emperor of 
China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right 
of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the 
mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of 
their citizens and subjects respectively from one country to 
the other for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as perma- 
nent residents. (Treaty concluded, July 28, 1868). 

Anson Burlingame, U. S. Commissioner. 
Born Nov. 14, 1820, died Feb. 23, 1870. 

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping some- 
thing new; 

That which they have done but earnest of the things that 
they shall do: 

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags 
were furled 

In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. 

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NOVEMBER 15. 

My Lords, you cannot conquer America. It is im- 
possible. You may swell every expense and every effort 
still more extravagantly, pile and accumulate every assist- 
ance you can buy or borrow, traffic and barter with every 
little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects 
to the shambles of a foreign prince; — your efforts are for- 
ever vain and impotent, doubly so from this mercenary aid 
on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resent- 
ment, the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with 
the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them 
and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If 
I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a for- 
eign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay 
down my arms — never — never. (In the course of the de- 
bate, Lord Suffolk defended the employment of Indians in 
the war, as "justifiable to use all the means that God and 
nature put into our hands. 7 ') I am astonished, shocked, to 
hear such principles avowed in this House. I could not 
have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on 
my pillow, without giving vent to my eternal abhorrence 
of such principles. 

William Pitt (in Parliament, Nov. 18, 1777). 

Born Nov. 15, 1718, died May 1778. 

NOVEMBER 16. 

I see a vast confederation stretching from the frozen 
north in an unbroken line to the glowing south, and from 
the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer 
waters of the Pacific; and I see one people and one lan- 
guage, one faith and one law, and, over all the continent, 
the home of freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of 
every race and clime. John Bright, born Nov. 16. 181 1. 



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NOVEMBER 17. 

Make known by every means you can the personal 
Christ, not doctrine about Him, but Him. Let faith mean 
trusting Him, and trying to obey Him. Call any man a 
Christian who is following Him. Offer Him to the world. 
as He is forever offering Himself. Claim and express the 
fellowship of faith with all believers, whatever name they 
bear. Let not religion seem the affair of a party. Hardly 
any man does more for scepticism than he who while the 
world is trembling on the brink of atheism spends his life 
in championing the shibboleth of his denomination. The 
life of Jesus must be the centre of all preaching. The 
church must put off her look of selfishness. She must first 
deeply feel and then frankly say that she exists not as the 
ark where a choice few may take refuge, but as the promise 
and potency of the new heavens and the new earth she 
must offer herself to men, Phillips Brooks. 

NOVEMBER 18. 

We desire to see the grace of God shining forth in all 
we admit into church fellowship, and to keep off such as 
openly wallow in the mire of their sins. 

Edward Winslow, born Oct. 19, 1595. 



One ship sails east, another west, 
With the same winds that blow; 

The set of the sails, not the gales, 
Determines where they go. 

Like the winds are the ways of fate 

Upon our voyage of life : 
The set of soul decides the goal, 

And not the calm or strife. 

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NOVEMBER 19. 

What we find in the New Testament as to a gradual 
communication of truth, relates to this one point: that the 
disciples were to be led on gently to a sense of the unim- 
portance of the ceremonies of the Jewish law. Christianity 
was given complete, as to its own truths, from the begin- 
ning of the Gospel; but the sufficiency of these truths, the 
needlessness of any other system as joined with them, was 
to be learned only by degrees; unhappily, it never was 
learned fully The perfection, of which the Epistle to the 
Hebrews speaks as not reached by those to whom the au- 
thor was writing, was by the mass of the church never- 
reached at all; because Judaism incorporated itself witln 
Christianity, and destroyed Christian truths, to substitute- 
its own falsehood. The superstitiou of the Judaizers con- 
sists not in reverence for the sacraments, which Christ ap- 
pointed as instruments of good, but in having drawn off 
attention from the important part of Baptism and the 
Lord's Supper, to regard God's grace not as conveyed by 
them morally, but after the manner of a charm, in conse- 
quence of words pronounced by a priest; — which contains 
the essence of the unchristian and mischievous view of the 
sacraments entertained by the Romish and Anglican 
P°P ei 7- Thomas Arnold. 

NOVEMBER 20. 

The causes of superstition are pleasing and sensual- 
rites and ceremonies; excess of outward and Pharisaical 
holiness; over-great reverence of traditions which load the 
church; the stratagems of prelates for their own ambition 
and lucre - Francis Bacon. 



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NOVEMBER 21. 

Catholicism makes the relation of the believer to 
Christ to depend on his relation to the church; Protestant- 
ism make the relation of the believer to the church to de- 
pend on his relation to Christ. 

Friedrich Schleiermacher, born Nov. 21 , 1768. 

I believe our country to be blessed with higher privi- 
leges, and preparing for a more glorious future than any 
other nation. It is for us to decide higher problems and 
develop greater principles than has been the lot of any 
other people. For us are three questions: whether the 
black man and the white can live together in equality; 
whether a free people can by freedom perpetuate law and 
government; whether the Church can be separated from 
the State, and still the State be pure and Christian. 

Henry Boynton Smith, born Nov. 21, 1815. 

NOVEMBER 22. 

The truth commands you. Either you obey, and it will 
lead you, or you disobey, and it will hang on you with the 
weight of a chain which you will drag forever. Can man 
or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose 
their birth-place, or their father and mother. If you forsake 
your place, who will fill it? Every bond of life is a debt; 
the right lies in the payment of that debt. In vain will you 
wander over the earth; you will be wandering for ever from 
the right. That hallowed motive which men call Duty can 
have no inward constraining existence save through some 
form of believing love. The higher life begins when we re- 
nounce our will to bow before a divine law. This is the 
portal of wisdom, freedom, blessedness. The symbol of it 
is the Cross, the image of a supreme offering, made by 
supreme love. 

George Eliot (Marian Evans), born Nov. 22, 1819. 



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NOVEMBER 23. 

The words of Jesus were not the roaring wind, the 
shattering earthquake, the devouring fire, but the gentle 
breeze, the refreshing dew, the still small voice of love. It 
was not the desolate solitudes of Horeb and the stony 
plains of Perea, in which he preached, but in the garden of 
the Jewish world, by the blue Lake of Galilee, where the 
smiling corn-fields, the soft-eyed flowers, the sweet mead- 
ows, made the loveliest spot in Palestine. Where Elijah 
and John the Bapist failed, Jesus succeeded. That tender 
power entered into the heart of the human race, and men 
bowed before it as corn before the summer wind. Sin and 
wrong, cruelty and injustice, superstition, idolatry, immo- 
rality, luxury, melted before it like snow from a mountain 
side; and all the flowers of goodness, of love, faith, hope, 
and joy, sprang up in the soul. The vast power was His, 
which endures in the reverence, affection, and inspiration 
of mankind. There, my people, is your power hidden; in 
lovingkindness, in the winning way, the gentle word. An- 
ger and bluster, the storm of denunciation, the earthquake 
and fire pass away. But love and pity and the still voice of 
gentleness never fail. Stop ford A. Brooke. 

NOVEMBER 24. 

(John Knox died Nov. 24, 1572) But for him the Refor- 
mation would have been overthrown in England, Elizabeth 
would have been flung from off her throne, or have gone 
back into the Egypt for which she was too often casting 
wistful eyes. James Anthony Fronde, 1818 — 

Whatever the pretensions of any body of men, they are 
sure to abuse power, if much of it is conferred upon them. 
The entire history of the world affords no instance to the 
contrary. Henry Thomas Buckle, born Nov. 24, 182 1. 



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NOVEMBER 25. 

Some are best frightened from sin and ruin by terror; 
their fear is the properest passion to address. I thought it 
lawful to take hold of any handling of the soul to lead it 
away from vicious pleasure; and if I could make up a com- 
position of virtue and delight, suited to youth, I had some 
hope to allure and raise them above temptation. When I 
felt an inclination to satire or burlesque, I thought proper 
to suppress it. The grinning and growling muse are not 
hard to be obtained; but I would disdain their assistance 
where a manly invitation to virtue and a friendly smile may 
be successfully employed. Could I persuade a man by a 
kindlier method, I should never scold or laugh at him. 

Many a line needs the file to polish it, and many a 
thought wants richer language to make it shine. 

He that has treasures of his own, 
May leave the cottage or the throne, 
May quit the globe, and dwell alone 
Within his spacious mind. 
Isaac Watts, died Nov. 25, 1748, aged 74. 

NOVEMBER 26. 

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, 
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, 
And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn 
Throws up a steaming column, and the cups, 
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each; — 
So let us welcome peaceful evening in. 

The kindest and the happiest pair 
Will find occasion to forbear; 
And something every day they live, 
To pity, and perhaps forgive. 

William Cow per, born Nov. 26, 1731. 



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NOVEMBER 27. 

The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, 
Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. 
Nature is but a name for an effect, 
Whose cause is God. He feeds the sacred fire 
By which the mighty process is maintained; 
Rules universal nature. Not a flower 
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, 
Of his unrivalled pencil He inspires 
Their balmy odors, and imparts their hues. 
Happy who walks with Him ! whom what he finds 
Of flavor or of scent in fruit or flower, 
Or what he views of beautiful or grand 
In nature, from the broad majestic oak 
To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, 
Prompts with remembrance of a present God. 

W. Cowper. 
NOVEMBER 28. 

In our age no one has conceived and presented the 
truth of the universal priesthood of Christians with so 
much life, and in such close connection with the marrow of 
Christian doctrine, and made it tell so convincingly against 
the assumptions of the clergy church, as Thomas Arnold. 
The spirit of this revered apostle of the Free Church of the 
Future departed before he had completed the work of his 
life. He was taken from us before the stern combat has 
begun in earnest on either side. But he has left to his own 
people, whose love and admiration is his worthiest mon- 
ument, a life-inspiring testimony, not only in his writings, 
but in his whole life, — the model of an enlightened, faithful 
and disinterested inquirer after truth, and of a spirit of love 
and humility, not less than of freedom and power. 

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NOVEMBER 29. 

(Asked for his terms as a lecturer) If I speak on Anti- 
Slavery, nothing; if on any other subject, one hundred 
dollars 

Every race has its peculiar temptations, every clime its 
specific sin. The tropical races are tempted to one form of 
sensuality; the colder and temperate regions and our 
Saxon blood find their temptation in the stimulus of drink. 
We relieve the weariness of exhaustive toil by intoxication. 
Science puts into the hands of workmen the means of being 
drunk for a week on the labor of two or three hours. With 
that blood and that temptation we have adopted democratic 
institutions, where law rests not on bayonets as in Europe, 
but on the hearts of the people. A drunken people can 
never be the basis of a free government. The presence of 
a vice which brutalizes is a stab at the life of the Nation. 
To stay the evil, close the doors of temptation, stop the 
open sale of intoxicating drinks. 

Wendell Phillips, born Nov. 29, 181 1. 

NOVEMBER 30. 

All good things await 
Him who cares not to be great, 
But as he saves or serves the State. 
The path of Duty is the way to glory : 
He that walks it, only thirsting 
For the right, and learns to deaden 
Love of self, following her commands 
With toil of heart and knees and hands, 
Shall find the toppling crags of duty scaled 
Are close upon the shining table-lands, 
Where God himself is sun. 

Alfred Tennyson. 



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DECEMBER i. 

Friend, thou art entering the last month of another 
year. If thou art a man of business and prudent care, thou 
wilt now settle thy accounts. This is commendable; but 
not all. Wilt thou not examine thy moral accounts, and 
see what improvements thou hast made in the conduct of 
life, what vice subdued, what virtue acquired, how much 
better and wiser, as well as richer, thou art? Without care 
in this matter, though thou count thy thousands, thou wilt 
appear poor in the eyes of the discerning even here, and 
be really so for ever hereafter. Benjamin Franklin. 



DECEMBER 2. 

It is not possible for me to change my belief any more 
than to change my body. I cannot believe otherwise than 
I do at this moment, when I am preparing to return to God 
from whom I came. I do not say that my faith has been 
the only true faith for all times ; but I do not see any other 
that is clearer, or better responds to the requirements of 
my mind. If there should be revealed another faith better 
satisfying me, I would adopt it at once; for truth is the only 
thing of importance to God. As for returning to the doc- 
trines from which I emancipated at the price of so much 
suffering, I cannot do so. The bird that has taken its 
flight can never return to the shell out of which it came. 

Tolstoy. 
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DECEMBER 3. 

I learn that to obey is best, 
And love with fear the only God; to walk 
As in his presence; ever to observe 
His providence ; and on Him sole depend, 
Merciful over all his works, with good 
Overcoming evil: that suffering for truth's sake 
Is fortitude to highest victory, 
And, to the faithful, death the gate of life. 
Taught this by his example, whom I now 
Acknowledge my Redeemer, ever blest. 

John Milton. 



DECEMBER 4. 

This having learned, thou hast attained the sum 

Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars 

Thou knew'st by name, and all the ethereal powers, 

All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, 

Or works of God in heaven, air, earth, or sea, 

And all the riches of this world enjoyedst, 

And all the rule, one empire; only add 

Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, 

Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, 

By name to come called charity, the soul 

Of all the rest: then thou shalt possess 

A Paradise within thee. John Milton. 



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DECEMBER 5. 

I make no disavowal of the fact that there is a mystic 
element in language, and in the views of Christian life and 
doctrine I have presented Man in his nature is a partially 
mystic being, the world a mystic world. Christ revealed a 
mystic element in his teachings. There is something of a 
mystic quality in almost every writing of the New Testa- 
ment In John, it is a character. In Paul, there are many 
passages as mystical as any in John. The last thing to be 
feared is that our style of religion will receive damage from 
the entrance of a mystical element. There is nothing we 
so much need as an apostle John. There is surely to be 
a time when narrow and restrictive dogmas will be burned 
up in the original fires of the apostolic age, rekindled in the 
church. 

It is a common error to fill our imagination out of our 
memories, and think that what has been shall be again, and 
that nothing else should be. But God is under no such 
terms of poverty that He can only fill his quiver with ar- 
rows He has shot before. What then? Certainly new 
stages of advance, higher ascensions of spiritual life, a 
supernatural bestowment of God upon men, an open state 
between God and men. Men have been able to re- 
ceive only a little of the divine, or none at all; but when 
they attain a conviction that the supernatural is the com- 
plement of nature, there will be an opening of their bosoms 
to the divine as a general and blessed fact. 

Horace Bushnell. 
DECEMBER 6. 

When Truth is the chief passion, it does not give way 
to vulgar cares, nor is it contented with a little ardor in the 
early time of life. He that would make progress in knowl- 
edge must dedicate his age as well as youth, the later 
growth as well as first fruits, at the altar of Truth. 

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DECEMBER 7. 

O you that name yourselves by that worthy name of 
Christians, consider the great Apostle of your profession, 
who took our flesh that we might partake of his spirit. He 
came to discover his Father's love, and win yours. He 
came to exemplify to the world in his own person how 
much of heaven he could make to dwell in mortal flesh; 
how possible he could make it to live in this world as un- 
related to it; how the divine life could triumph over the 
infirmities of frail humanity, and have a certain proof and 
pledge to what perfection human nature could be improved 
by his grace in them that should resign themselves to his 
conduct, and follow his steps; that heaven and earth were 
not so far asunder but he knew how to settle a commerce 
and intercourse between them; that a heavenly life was pos- 
sible to be transacted here, and certain to be rewarded and 
perfected hereafter. j j m Howe, 1630-1705. 



DECEMBER 8. 

I expect to pass through the world but once ; if, there- 
fore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing 
I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let 
me not defer or neglect; for I shall not pass this way 
again. Edward Courtenay. 

Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim, 
And publish abroad his wonderful name: 
The name all victorious of Jesus extol; 
His kingdom is glorious and rules over all. 

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DECEMBEN 9. 

From my very youth I have been bent upon such 
studies as inclined me, if not to do great things myself, to 
celebrate those that did. My appetite for knowledge was 
so voracious, that from twelve years of age I hardly ever 
left my studies before midnight. This primarily led to my 
loss of sight. My father had me daily instructed in the 
grammar school, and by other masters at home. He then 
sent me to the University of Cambridge. Here I passed 
seven years in the usual course of instruction, with the 
approbation of the good, and without any stain upon my 
character. 

I invoke the Almighty to witness, that I never at any 
time wrote anything which I did not think agreeable to 
truth, to justice, and to piety. Nor was I ever prompted by 
the influence of ambition, by the lust of lucre or of power ; 
it was only by the conviction of duty, and the feeling of 
patriotism, passion for the extension of civil and religious 
liberty. In my blindness, I enjoy in no inconsiderable de- 
gree the favor of the Deity, who regards me with more 
tenderness in proportion as I am able to behold nothing 
but himself. To this I ascribe the tender assiduities of my 
friends, their soothing attention, kind visits, their reveren- 
tial observances. J j m Milton, born Dec. 9, 1608. 

DECEMBER 10. 

(Luther burnt the pope's bull, Dec. 10, 1520). 
What! Shall one monk, scarce known beyond his cell, 

Front Rome's far-reaching bolts, and scorn her frown? 
Brave Luther answered YES; that thunder's swell 
Rocked Europe, and discharmed the triple crown. 

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DECEMBER n. 

The hope of a future life nestles in the heart of the 
lace. When savages bury with the dead man his weapons 
and utensils, in order that he may start with a full equip- 
ment, they believe that he is somewhere. When the Athe- 
nians went out to Eleusis, in March, as the life of the year 
springs, and in September as it fades, and held a solemn 
function, it was not only that they might live happily, but 
4 'might die with a fairer hope," as Cicero puts it. The 
Eleusinian mysteries must have been a great support for 
the pious of the time, and served the purpose of a confer- 
ence for deepening spiritual life. There may be a few who 
would be content that their life should be flung back like 
a cupful of water into the stream from which it was taken ; 
but to the race the destruction of the hope would be irrep- 
arable. This instinct Jesus did not belittle. He made a 
distinction between life as mere physical existence, a soul 
inert and unconscious, and life spiritual, a soul receptive 
and active. Mere existence he called death, and startled 
men with the paradox, "Let the dead bury their dead." 

John Watson (Ian Maclaren). 

DECEMBER 12. 

He who loves God will not desire that God should love 
him in return with a partial or particular affection ; for that 
is to desire God for his sake to change his nature and be 
come less than Himself. 

Benedict Spinoza, 1632- 1677. 

The first of all Christian truths is, that Truth should be 
loved above all. Blaise Pascal. 



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DECEMBER 13. 

We are told that "God is Spirit/' that "God is Light/' 
but most emphatically and repeatedly, that "God is Love." 
It is a definition which has never been reasserted in any 
creed; but it encourages us to take so hopeful a view of 
the Supreme governance of the world, as to say that the 
expression of the Supreme mind is above all else "Love/" 
or as the Latin phrase goes, "God is Charity." The 
Evangelist, and they who were with him in that climax 
and crisis of the religious history of mankind, received a 
new impression of the Divine nature. The prevailing ex- 
pression of that countenance which they beheld beside the 
Lake of Galilee, and from the Cross of Calvary, was Love. 
In that face they felt that they had seen the face of God. 
The declaration that God is Love, expresses the source of 
the strength of the Divine nature, gives harmony to the 
idea of the Eternal. It is founded on the belief that Good- 
ness is the essence of the Divine nature. 

A. P. Stanley, born Dec. 13, 1815. 

DECEMBER 14. 

What figure more immovably august 
Than that grave strength so patient and so pure, 
Calm in good fortune, when it wavered, sure; 
That mind serene, impenetrably just, 
That soul so softly radiant and so white, 
So simple in its grandeur, standing there 
In perfect symmetry of self-control? 
Soldier and statesman, rarest union; 
High-poised example of great duties done ; 
There is but one, our Washington (died Dec. 14, 1799)- 

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DECEMBER 15. 

It is asked whether the Historical Christ, who lived 
eighteen hundred years ago, is still amongst us, and how 
and where His presence is to be found and felt. The best 
answer is the answer of the Apostle, "To live is Christ/' 
It is so on the smallest scale in our individual existence. 
It is so on the largest scale. The life of Christendom is 
the continuation of the life of Christ. It is through multi- 
tudinous living human hearts, human acts and words of 
love and truth, that the Christ of the first century becomes 
the Christ of the nineteenth. Each successive age, each 
separate nation does His work on a larger and still larger 
scale. The arts, literature, sciences, charities, liberties, 
laws, worship of the Christian commonwealths, are parts 
of the living body of Christ. Their influence is His influ- 
ence. Their benefits are part of the innumerable benefits 
of His Cross and Passion. To live under the best Christian 
influences, this for us, and this only, is — the Apostle allows 
us to say— Christ Himself. A. P. Stanley. 

DECEMBER 16. 
God takes care of his saints when their spirits leave 
their clay tabernacles, and take their course to the world 
of light. There is reason to believe that He appoints one 
or more of his holy angels to lead every pious departed 
spirit to the regions of the blest. Lazarus was carried to 
Abraham's bosom. Peter had his guardian angel, and it is 
probable that every saint has his guardian angel, who at- 
tends him through life, takes care of his departed spirit, 
and conducts him to the mansions Christ has gone before 
to provide. After, this, God will take care of the newly 
arrived spirits, and give their angels charge to make them 
known to those with whom they were once united in Chris- 
tian affection. Their employments will be pointed out, as 
well as their due rewards allotted them. 

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DECEMBER 17. 

With silence only as their benediction, 

God's angels come 
Where, in the shadow of a great affliction, 

The soul sits dumb. 
Yet would I say what thy own heart approveth : 

Our Father's will, 
Calling to Him the dear one whom He loveth. 

Is mercy still. 
Not upon thee or thine the solemn angel 

Hath evil wrought: 
Her funeral anthem is a glad evangel, — 

The good die not. 

/. G. Whittier, born Dec. 17, 1807. 

The Christian's home is whereso'er 

Christ's Spirit breathes a holier air; 

Where Christlike Faith is keen to seek 

What Truth or Conscience freely speak; 

Where Christlike Love delights to span 

The rents that sever man from man; 

Where round God's throne His just ones stand; 

There, Christian, is thy Fatherland. 

A. P. Stanley. 

DECEMBER 18. 

Let each eye that sees thee, see 
Something of the Christ in thee, 
And each man who hears thee, hear 
Jesus whispering in his ear. 

Saint Patrick, 372-464. 



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DECEMBER 19. 

Large bodies are far more likely to err than individ- 
uals. The passions are inflamed by sympathy; the fear of 
punishment and the sense of shame are diminished by par- 
tition. Every day we see men do for their faction what 
they would die rather than do for themselves. 

T. B. Macaulay. 

DECEMBER 20. 

There were the strongest reasons why /America could 
not grow into a repetition of England. .Passing from an 
island to a continent, the colonists altered their condition 
in relation to the most important of all social facts, the 
possession of the soil. In England, inequality lies im- 
bedded in the very base of the social structure; in America, 
it is a late, incidental, unrecognized product, not of tradi- 
tion, but of industry and wealth, as they advance with un- 
equal steps. Heredity, an idea in the heart's core of Eng- 
lishmen, was absent from the colonists. Equality with lib- 
erty was the groundwork of their social creed. Slavery 
failed to impair the theory, however it imported into prac- 
tice a hideous solecism. No hardier product of republican- 
ism was generated in New England than in the Slave 
States. 

The great acts and the great forbearance which fol- 
lowed the close of the Civil War, proceeding from the 
choice and conviction of the people, have, in doing honor 
to the United States, also rendered a splendid service 
to the cause of popular government throughout the world. 

William E. Gladstone, 1809-1898. 



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DECEMBER 21. 

(In Westminster Abbey, July 4, 1880) It is not for me 
to glorify to-night the country which I love with all my 
heart and soul. But on my country's birthday I may do 
something more solemn and more worthy of the hour. I 
may ask you for your prayer on her behalf. That on the 
manifold and wondrous chance which God is giving her, — 
on her freedom, her unconstrained religious life, her pas- 
sion for education, her eager search for truth, her care for 
the poor man's rights and opportunities, her countless 
quiet homes where the future generations of her men are 
growing, her manufactures and commerce, her wide gates 
open to the east and to the west, her strange meetings of 
the races out of which a new race is slowly being born, 
her vast enterprise and illuminated hopefulness, — on all 
these materials and machineries of manhood, on all that the 
life of my country must mean for humanity, I may ask you 
to pray that the blessing of God the Father of man, and 
Christ the Son of man, may rest forever. 

Because here, under this high and hospitable roof of 
God, we are all more than Englishmen and more than 
Americans; because we are men, children of God, waiting 
for the full coming of our Father's kingdom, I ask you for 
that prayer. Phillips Brooks, born Dec. 13, 1835. 

DECEMBER 22. 

Plymouth Rock has become an object of veneration 
in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully pre- 
served in several towns of the Union. Does not this show 
that all human greatness is in the soul? Here is a stone 
which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and 
the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great na- 
tion; its very dust is shared as a relic. And what has be- 
come of the gateways of a thousand palaces? Who cares 
for them? Alexis De Tocqueville, 1805-1859, 



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DECEMBER 23. 
Our past should spontaneously as from a germ evolve 
a wise, moral and glorious future. Our founders, those 
heroic men and women, should not look down on a 
dwindled posterity. They who keep the graves, bear the 
name, and boast the blood of men in whom the loftiest 
sense of duty blended with the fiercest spirit of liberty, 
should add to their freedom, justice, that venerable virtue, 
without which freedom, valor, and power are but vulgar 
things; justice to all men, justice to all nations. 

Rufus Choate. 

DECEMBER 24. 
Two of the writers of the New Testament, Matthew, 
Luke, affirm the birth of Jesus from the natural side, one 
of them, John, from the supernatural. The commingling 
of the two streams of life is one of the inscrutable mysteries. 
Within our humanity, deeper than all its wrappages, is the 
immanent Deity, the inspiring energy on which we ever 
draw, out of which we breathe the breath of life. But He 
never invades our consciousness. When His life beomes 
our life, it is no longer Divine, but human, and within our 
voluntary agency, to give back to Him in self-renouncing 
service, or pervert to selfish ends. Supposing it possible 
for a being to be born into our earthly existence with hu- 
manity on one side, and the Divine Spirit on the other, it 
is conceivable that it would image the Divine perfection 
on a loftier plane. Such a person would not be a case of 
mere prophetic inspiration, but of Divine incarnation, the 
voice of Divine Reason, the normal dictate of the soul. 
In a person divinely human there would be nothing un- 
natural, but nature transfigured, exalted, humanity made 
perfect, the clear and spotless mirror in w T hich the Divine 
attributes shine forth upon the world. 

Edmund H. Sears, 1810-1876. 



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DECEMBER 25. 

"Peace on the earth, good will to men 

From heaven's all-gracious King" — 
The world in solemn stillness lay 

To hear the angels sing. 
But man, at war with man, hears not 

The love-song which they bring; — 
Oh hush the noise, ye men of strife, 

And hear the angels sing. 

E. H. Sears. 

O thou great Friend to all the sons of men, 

Who once appeared in humble guise below, 
Sin to rebuke, to break the captive's chain, 

And call thy brethren forth from want and woe; — 
We look to Thee! thy truth is still the light 

Which guides the nations, groping on their way, 
Stumbling and falling in disastrous night, 

Yet hoping ever for the perfect day. 

Theodore Parker, 1810- i860. 

DECEMBER 26. 

Look within the churches, and see the images of will- 
ing anguish for a great end, of beneficent love and ascend- 
ing glory; see upturned faces and lips moving to the old 
prayers for help. These things have not changed. The 
sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty, and waken the 
heart-strains at morning, noon, and evening; the little chil- 
dren are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between 
love and duty; men still yearn for the reign of righteous- 
ness and peace, and own that life the highest which is a 
conscious voluntary sacrifice. 

Our deeds follow us from afar, 

And what we have been makes us what we are. 

George Eliot. 



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DECEMBER 27. 

Advance, ye future generations! We welcome you to 
the blessings of good government and religious liberty, to 
the treasures of science and the delights of learning. We 
welcome you to the transcendent sweets of domestic life, 
to the happiness of kindred, and parents, and children. 
We welcome you to the immeasurable blessings of rational 
existence, the immortal hopes of Christianity, and the 
light of everlasting life. . Daniel Webster. 

DECEMBER 28. 

Ye who would have your features florid, 
Lithe limbs, bright eyes, unwrinkled forehead, 
From age's devastation horrid, 

Adopt this plan, — 
'Twill make in climate cold or torrid, 

A hale old man. 

Avoid in youth luxurious diet, 
Restrain the passions' lawless riot; 
Devoted to domestic quiet, 

Be wisely gay; 
So shall ye, spite of age's fiat, 

Resist decay. 

Seek not in Mammon's worship pleasure. 
But find your dearest, richest treasure 
In God, His word, His work, not leisure: 

The mind, not sense, 
Is the sole scale by which to measure 

Your opulence. 

Horace Smith, 1779- 1849. 



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DECEMBER 29. 

We cannot maintain the authority of religious truth, 
unless it be preached by men to whom others shall have 
occasion to look up. A thinking, reading, inquisitive, free 
people, who have much of the civil and ecclesiastical power 
in their own hands, require of their preacher more acu- 
men, learning, more of moral excellence, than has been 
demanded in other lands. They make it needful for the 
minister to push his investigations beyond the line to 
which his predecessors advanced, and search for wisdom 
among treasures yet hidden. 

Edwards A. Park, born Dec. 29, 1808. 

DECEMBER 30. 

O may I join the choir invisible 

Of those immortal dead who live again 

In minds made better by their presence; live 

In pulses stirred to generosity, 

In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn 

For miserable aims that end with self, 

In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, 

And with their mild persistence urge man's search 

To vaster issues. 

George Eliot. 

DECEMBER 31. 

It would be difficult in a democratic government to 
overestimate the importance of publicity in the manage- 
ment of corporate enterprises. Many an abuse which 
would otherwise linger to vex the public dissipates itself 
when brought into the light of public opinion. 

Henry Carter Adams, born Dec. 31, 1853. 



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The end crowns all; 
And that old common arbitrator, Time, 
Will one day end it. 

Shakespeare. 

Now the truer life draws nigher, 

Every year; 
And the morning star climbs higher, 

Every year; 
Earth's hold on us grows slighter, 
And the heavy burdens lighter, 
And the dawn immortal brighter, 

Every year. 
Albert Pike, Dec. 29, 1809 — Ap. 2, 1891. 

Be ours to heed the lesson while we may, 
Look up for light to guide us on our way, 
Look forward bravely, but not weakly back; 
The past is done with, mind the coming track ; 
Look in with searching eye and courage stout, 
But when temptations come, look out! look out! 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 
Aug. 29, 1809— Oct. 7, 1894. 



AUTHORS 



Adams, Henry C, 181 
Adams, John, 146 
Adams, J. Q., 130 
Adams, W. W., 3, 56 
Addison, Joseph, 62, 64, 95 
Akenside, Mark. 156 
Alford, Henry. 140 
Angelo, Michel, 26 
Arnold, Edwin, 81 
Arnold, Matthew, 82. S3 
Arnold. Thomas, S3, 161 
Augustine, Aurelius, 120 

Bacon, Francis. 42, 52. 57. 1'-1 

Bacon, Leonard, 27, 108, 152 

Bailey, P. J., 93 

Bancroft, George, 109. 129. 138 

Barbauld. Anna JB-. 36 

Beecher. H. W.. 35. 88 

Belknap. Jeremy. 86 

Bentley. Richard. 16 

Benton. Thomas H.. 38 

Berkeley. George. 37. 39. 40. 169 

Bright. John 118, 159 

Brooke, Stooford A.. 48. 92. 163 

Brooks. Phillips. 14, 105. 107. 112. 137 

1P0. 177 
Browning. Robert. 65, 87. 116 
Brownson. Orestes A.. 130 
Bruce. Alexander B., 17 
Bryant, W. C., 28, 83. 132, 153 
Bryce. Jame«. 6^ 
Buckle. H. T., 163 



Bunsen, C. C. J., 165 

Bunyan, John, 121 

Burke, Edmund, 96, 108, 123 

Burlingame, Anson, 158 

Burns, Robert, 15 

Burton, Robert, 2 

Bushnell, Horace, 28, 29, 53, 155, 168 

Butler, James D., 129, 135 

Butler, Joseph, 70, 82, 84, 90 

Byers, S. H. M., 76 

Byron, George G., 56 

Caird. John, 12, 140, 141 

Campbell, Douglas, 22, 98 

Carver, John, 157 

Casanbon, Isaac, 31 

Channing. W. E.. 132. 133, 137, 142, 

145 
Child. Lydia Maria, 23 
Choate, Rufus, 103, 178 
Cicero, 50 

Clarke, James Freeman, 80 
Coleridge. S. T., 104, 147 
Comte, Auguste, 124 
Cooper, Peter, 24 
Courtenay, E., 170 
Cowper, William. 59, 164, 165 
Cox, Samuel H., 119 
Cranmer, Thomas, 92 
Crapo, P. M., 131 
Crashaw, R., 13 
Creighton, Mandell. 46 
Curtis, George W., 30, 51 



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AUTHORS 



Dante, 80, 128 
Darwin, Charles, 24 
D'Aubigne, M., 114 
Depew, Chauncey M., 71 
Dickens, Charles, 21, 81 
Doddridge, Philip, 3, 47, 89 
Dollinger, Ignatius, 31 
Dwight, Timothy, 69 

Edwards, Jonathan, 7, 8, 49, 139 
Emerson, R. W., 17, 42, 44, 61, 70, 74, 

135 
Emmons, Nathaniel, 174 
Evans, Marian (George Eliot), 26, 

152, 162, 179, 181 
Evarts, W. M., 20, 24 
Eschenbach, W., 80 

Faber, P. W. f 90 

Fairbairn, A. M., 107, 115, 154 

Farrar. F. W., 110 

Fenelon, F., 6, 109 

Finney, Charles G., 121 

Fiske, John, 55 

Flammarion, C, 30 

Franklin, Benjamin, 11, 12, 14, 16, 167 

Froude, J. A., 163 

George, Henry, 123 
Gladstone, W. E., 71, 152, 176 
Goldsmith, Oliver, 50, 72, 136 
Gray, Thomas, 106 
Green, John Richard, 63 
Grimes, James W., 146 
Guthrie, Thomas, 61 

Hale, Edward Everett, 36, 38 
Hall, Charles, 103 
HalL Robert, 28, 45, 62 
Hamilton, William, 35 
Harnack, A., 119, 137, 148, 150 
Hatch, Edwin, 124, 156 
Hawthorne, N., 46, 94, 97 
Heber, Reginald, 57 
Helps, Arthur, 35 
Hemans, Felicia, 134 



Henrotin, Ellen, 158 
Hildreth, Richard, 8 
Hoar, George F., 122, 151 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 182 
Hood, Thomas, 63 
Hooker, Richard, 113 
Hopkins, Mark, 19, 83 
Howe, John, 170 
Howe, Julia Ward, 75, 128 
Hugo, Victor, 30, 34 
Hunt, Leigh, 146 
Huntington, F. D., 82 
Huxley, Thomas H., 49 

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 145 
Jefferson, Thomas, 53, 54 
Jerome, 97 

John of Damascus, 4 
Jowett, Benjamin, 65, 68, 127 

Kaut, Tmmanuel, 93 
Keble, John, 59 
Kingsley, Charles, 82 
Kossuth, Louis, 60, 123 

Lanier, Sidney, 19 

Latimer, Hugh, 144 

Lavater, J. K., 4 

Lightfoot, J. B., 45 

Lincoln, Abraham, 23, 33 

Livingstone, David, 41 

Locke, John, 121 

Loisy, Alfred, 73 

Longfellow, H. W., 31, 73, 142, 152 

Lowell, James R., 77, 80, 93, 96, 105, 

125, 171, 173 
Lowell, John, Jr., 33 
Luther, Martin, 55, 151 
Lyte, Henry F., 79 

Macaulay, T. B., 149, 176 
Mackennal, A., 125, 136 
Madison, James, 39 
McKinley, William, 30 
Mann, Horace, 76 
Manning, Henry E., 99 
Martineau, James, 116 



AUTHORS 



185 



Mason, Lowell, 6 

Mather, Cotton, 23, 25, 48 

Miller, Samuel F., 51 

Milman, H. H., 22, 43, 47 

Milton, John, 117, 126, 151, 155, 168, 

171 
Montalembert, M., 13 
Moore, Thomas, 75 

Newman, John H., 29, 43, 112, 158 

O'llara, Theodore, 76 
Origen, 67 

Paley, William, 74, 121 

Park, Edwards A., 154, 181 

Parker, Theodore, 179 

Parkman, Francis, 35, 60, 130, 131 

Pascal, Blaise, 86, 87, 172 

Patrick, St., 175 

Payne, John Howard, 81 

Peabody, A. P., 34, 37, 41, 46 

Perkins, James H., 106 

Phillips, Wendell, 41, 166 

Pike, Albert, 182 

Pitt, William, 159 

Plato, 144 

Pope, Alexander, 72 

Post, Truman M., 78, 79, 94, 113, 129 

Pythagoras, 5 

Robertson, F. W., 19, 99 
Robinson, John, 102 
Rosebery, Archibald P. P., 64 
Ruskin, John, 21, 27 

Sabatier, Auguste, 91, 134 

Schleiermacher, F., 162 

Scott, Walter, 114 

Sears, Edmund H., 178, 179 

Sewall, Jonathan M., 93 

Seward, W. H., 69, 141 

Shakespeare, William, 57, 98, 99, 182 

Smith, Henry B., 162 

Smith, Horace, 180 

Socrates, 143 

South, Robert, 95 



Spenser, Edmund, 10 

Spinoza, Benedict, 172 

Stanley, Arthur P., 100, 101, 118. 138u 

173, 174, 175 
Storrs, Richard Salter, 117 
Story, Joseph, 95, 130 
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 84, 144 
Sturtevant, Julian M., 104 
Sumner, Charles, 5 

Tacitus, 52 

Taylor, Bayard, 8 

Tennyson, Alfred, 3, 9, 10, 109, 13&. 

158, 166 
Tertullian, 20, 142, 147 
Thaxter, Celia, 32 
Thiers, U M., 123 
Thomson, James, 77, 120, 127 
Tocqueville, Alexis, 106, 177 
Tolstoy, L. N., 44, 167 
Trench, Richard C, 77, 1» 

Virgil, Publius, 76 

Walton, Izaak, 111 

Washington, George, 28 

Watson, John flan Maclaren), 172 

Watts, Isaac, 17, 100, 164 

Wayland, Francis, 37, 38 

Webster, Daniel, 8, 11, 15, 18, 40, 102, 

103, 148, 150, 180 
Weinstock, Harris, 6 
Wesley, Charles, 115, 170 
Wesley, John, 32, 85 
Westcott, Brooke Foss, 66 
Whately, Richard, 89 
Whichcote, B., 37 
Whittier. John G., 158, 175 
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 160 
Williams, Roger, 54 
Willis, N. P., 50 
Win slow, Edward, 160 
Winthrop, Robert C, 67 
Wool ey, T. D., Ill 
Wordsworth, William, 51, 58, 88 

Young, Edward, 52 



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